Focus on the Artist: Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman is an amazing conceptual artist that has done some very intricate sculptures. His work borders on obsession that will completely blow your mind. I'm just boggled with some of his work. Here he carved his self portrait out of an aspirin!

Conceptual art is something that can normally really make you think, for the sake of calling it art. But Friedman's art is something much more. You find yourself in thought about it because it has all the intrinsic qualities that can call it art, but also has this dimension of obsession that you instantly think of when you see it.

Here's a piece called "Untitled" that contains over 30,000 toothpicks. How amazing is this?! Who has the time to place 30,000 toothpicks together to form this beautiful, complex sculpture.

I couldn't find any pictures of his self portrait made from sugar cubes, but I can say I was immediately blown away. It's a life-size sculpture, in simple cubism, made entirely from sugar cubes. I think this is one of the things that inspired me the most to do the sculpture I'm working on now.

By the way, I did start the beef cube sculpture of the the cow. So far, so good. I've used almost 70 cubes and I've done hardly anything, so I will be need many, many more.