'Looking Up,' by Tom Friedman
'Looking Up,' by Tom Friedman was on view until at Park Avenue & East 53rd Street in New York City until the end of July, 2016.
American artist Tom Friedman is notorious for using objects from everyday life in his work. Among the most unusual are toothpicks, chewing-gum, paper cups, and plastic straws; cooked and dried spaghetti, as well as hair -- to name just a few.
Tom Friedman also often plays with scale, creating at times tiny works of art or extremely imposing ones. This monumental sculpture was yet another example of these two aspects of his work: the play on scale, and the use of everyday life objects.
'Looking Up' is a 32" high human-like figure entirely wrapped in aluminum foil -- you know, the stuff found in your kitchen drawers.
A big New York City "no-no", this disproportionate and at times unsettling human figure invited onlookers to direct their gazes skyward and the imposing New York buildings, in turn, inevitably influenced how the sculpture was itself perceived.
'Looking Up' was an invitation to grow from the inside, change perspective, and look up to the point of nearly falling backwards. This created a sense of marvel and also induced a sensation of vertigo.
'Looking Up,' by Tom Friedman
'Looking Up,' by Tom Friedman was on view until at Park Avenue & East 53rd Street in New York City until the end of July, 2016.
American artist Tom Friedman is notorious for using objects from everyday life in his work. Among the most unusual are toothpicks, chewing-gum, paper cups, and plastic straws; cooked and dried spaghetti, as well as hair -- to name just a few.
Tom Friedman also often plays with scale, creating at times tiny works of art or extremely imposing ones. This monumental sculpture was yet another example of these two aspects of his work: the play on scale, and the use of everyday life objects.
'Looking Up' is a 32" high human-like figure entirely wrapped in aluminum foil -- you know, the stuff found in your kitchen drawers.
A big New York City "no-no", this disproportionate and at times unsettling human figure invited onlookers to direct their gazes skyward and the imposing New York buildings, in turn, inevitably influenced how the sculpture was itself perceived.
'Looking Up' was an invitation to grow from the inside, change perspective, and look up to the point of nearly falling backwards. This created a sense of marvel and also induced a sensation of vertigo.