OP Craftsman All Shook Up
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The Case of the Untogether Angel
Sometime Oak Park sculptor
Henry Friedman isn't a supersti-
tious—or a religious—man, but he
admits to being a trifle shaken
over some "unexplainable phenom-
ena" that are doing strange things
to his craft.
Friedman, a 47-year-old tool and
die maker, has been welding metal
junk into a unique art form for a
number of years. Most of the sub-
jects are from Bible stories.
But it is the most recent, "Abra-
ham's Sacrifice of Isaac" — the
product of seven months' work—
that is driving him nuts. It seems
that the lead weld, supposedly
capable of "holding a 100-pound
elephant," is not holding a three-
pound angel of the Lord—the angel
who, the Bible says, stayed the
hand of Abraham from killing
Isaac.
Three times, Friedman welded
the thunder bolt onto Abraham's
upraised arm. Three times, Fried-
man said he found the angel—and
thunderbolt—lying near the rest
of the 40-pound mass, as though
severed by a hatchet. They're
connected for a fourth time, but
Friedman isn't sure how long the
piece will remain intact. He said
welders have told him they can't
understand why his work is unto-
gether.
Friedman, who lives on Raine
Ave., Oak Park, said he creates
his work strictly for himself and
his family — including his wife
and daughters, 16 and 12.
He use machine shop materials
of copper, brass and some steel.
This latest piece includes an altar
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of brass tubing, an Abraham with
Norelco electric razor eyes and
an Isaac bound with steel chain.
But what is giving him trouble
is that angel—with its hose fitting
body and valve arms.
The German-born Friedman, a
survivor of Mauthausen and other
concentration camp s, • said he
doesn't believe in God. But when
his older daughter asked him to
alter his original plans for repre-
senting God in his sculpture and,
instead, to substitute an angel,
Friedman went along with her
wishes.
"When the angel fell off the first
time, my wife thought the weld
was bad," Friedman said. "But
the second and third times really
shook her up."
At no time did anyone in the
family see it happen, said Fried-
man, and each of the incidents
occurred a few days apart. The
sculpture was in a different loca-
tion each time.
"It's been seven months' work,"
Friedman said, "but if that angel
falls off once more, I'll take the
whole thing out back and smash it.
I don't believe in flying saucers,
but I do believe in unexplainable
phenomena. And this one's too
weird for me."
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