Tom Friedman, conceptual artist, uses everyday materials including sugar cubes, soap powder, toothpicks, construction paper, spaghetti, bubble gum, hair, tooth paste, and toilet paper.

Friedman, who rarely titles his work, employs a labor-intensive technique related to process art, and creates humorous and elemental works out of
materials that typically don't get human attention. For instance, a glob of bubble gum is stuck to the floor and stretched to the ceiling. In one piece,
thousands of words written on paper become an abstract design, and in
another, a piece of styrofoam is reduced to dust and then sculpted into an
improbably thin, gravity-defying tower.

Friedman's search for meaning in the ordinary broa...