Tom Friedman

In the article written by Jo Applin about Tom Friedman  and his process in his artwork the terms bricolage and braconnage are used to describe the process in which Tom Friedman goes about doing his work. The article says that bricolage is the strategy of "do it yourself" and braconnge is "poaching." Tom Friedman's art is very conceptual meaning that it does not resemble any one object or real life shape. Many of his pieces are formed from everyday objects that are then transformed into something entirely different. Take for instance a piece that he did in 1995 where he cut pencils up and then reformed them in to a continuous loop of pencil pieces. The end product resembles a sphere like shape and it is also very geometric because it has the angles of all the pencils glued together.

It seems like he likes to use repetition of smaller objects in many of his pieces to create one larger object. Most of his art is also very detailed and it seems like it would take him a considerable amount of time to complete all of them.