It’s construction paper

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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October 11th, 2009 10

“Self portrait in a state of fragmentation,” is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it’s “Untitled.” Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?

10 thoughts on “It’s construction paper”

neuroclast says:

October 11th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

5000x what it should have sold for.

Anonymous says:

October 11th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

5000x 0 is still 0.

liebesiech says:

October 12th, 2009 at 12:25 am

what a crap.
Anonymous says:

October 12th, 2009 at 7:05 am

An arm and a leg?
Mattyfu! says:

October 12th, 2009 at 10:12 am

I think it looks cool. I went to the linked page to see if it actually said what it sold for (it didn’t) and I had to laugh at “‘untitled’, 1999
soap and pubic hair”

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It’s construction paper

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