FriendsWithYou (FWY) is an art collaboration founded in 2002 and based in Los Angeles, California. History FriendsWithYou was founded in Miami, Florida by Samuel Albert Borkson (b.1979, Plantation, Florida) and Arturo Sandoval III (born 1976, Havana, Cuba). In 2002, which seeks to redesign spirituality, rituals, and religious acts for modern-day usage and connectivity. FriendsWithYou's mission coincides with their motto "Magic, Luck, and Friendship." The collaborative began by creating soft sculptures as a means to spread more accessible art like plush and wood toys, as well as immersive art installations, fine artworks including sculpture and painting, and are best known for their public art spectacles such as large-scale art installations, playgrounds, and performance pieces. They have described the creation of their art as a healing process intended to increase relatability and connection to each other and the world around them. To date, they have become internationally recognized with public exhibits and artworks in Europe, Asia, Australia, and The Americas. FriendsWithYou Fine Art has been exhibited and/or included in the permanent collections of Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Museum Berlin, and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, among others. In October 2006, the German art press Die Gestalten Verlag published a FriendsWithYou monograph titled Friends With You Have Powers! Artwork and installations FriendsWithYou has explained that their art is meant to "activate the social interaction of people as exploded and refracted by the Internet and elaborate new modes of interpersonal relationships." They use play as an artistic means to foster these relationships. Many FriendsWithYou works look like toys because they are meant for play as a means of interactive unstructured free association. FWY hopes that "through their artwork, the buried, neglected urges and yearnings that a seasoned art viewer may not expect to have activated; playfulness, laughter, and inquisitiveness are triggered, with an end result of feeling connected." FWY inverts the practice and usage of religious traditions, symbols, and spiritual practices through play to open a connection to the divine. Conceptually, FriendsWithYou's experiential artwork is in conversation with Relational Aesthetics and the work of Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Damien Hirst. The collective has been compared to Takashi Murakami for their "superflat" approach to art. Solo shows Inner Vision in Between was featured at the MCLEMOI Gallery in Sydney, Australia from February 15 to April 11, 2013. The exhibition themes ran from the playful