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Metal Man
Continued from preceding page
Afraid that his immediate
success was merely begin-
ners' luck, Friedman decided
to submit the sculpture to the
Southfield Arts Council Com-
petition, and again he won a
first place award.
But Friedman is a perfec-
tionist, and as handsome as
the piece was, to him "I Ac-
cuse" did not deliver the right
message. Thus, he brought it
home and destroyed it, and to-
day all that remains of that
first two-foot-by-four-foot
sculpture is a small plaque
and a pile of "junk" which
some day will probably
emerge as part of another
piece.
It was then that Friedman
decided to make a series of
works about the Holocaust.
Each has taken him from
eight months to 1 1/2 years to
complete, working practically
every day. He makes no
preliminary sketches. "First
I decide on a name," Fried-
man says. As with his first
pieces, each of the sculptures
is a composite of discarded
metal parts.
To date, Friedman has
finished ten sculptures deal-
ing with the Holocasut. He is
currently working on the
11th and last piece in the
series. In addition he has
created another 20 sculptures
depiciting biblical stories.
Raised in an Orthodox
home in what is today
Eastern Germany, Friedman
knows his Bible well. His
sculptures tell the stories of
Moses at Mt. Sinai, David
and Goliath, Samson and
Delilah, King Soloman, the
Queen of Sheba, and other
tales. From flea markets and
junk yards, he collects brass,
bronze, copper, gold and
aluminum. One of his most
unusual pieces depicts an
Israeli space station. He sees
it as "a pledge to search for
peace and justice for all
mankind."
Several features are unique
to Friedman's works.
"Wherever God is supposed
to be I have substituted an
angel," he says. His
"signature," is a U.S. dime,
prominently mounted on
each sculpture, with HF
engraved on it and the word
"liberty" clearly visible. "It
should be our most precious
word," he explains.
Although his pieces are not
for sale, Friedman's
sculptures have been shown
at many of the local
synagogues, at the Jewish
Community Center, at
schools, and in a number of
musuems in Michigan and
elsewhere. Often he is asked
to present lectures. He
believes, however, that art, in
and of itself, is a very strong,
Sister Mary Angeline, chairman of Madonna College's art
department, examines Friedman's sculpture.
silent language.
Monday through Friday
Friedman goes to work as a
trouble-shooter on the after-
noon shift for the Hydra-
matic Division of General
Motors in Warren. Three mor-
nings a week, when he is not
designing and welding in the
basement of his Oak Park
home, he volunteers at the
Jewish Home for the Aged.
He has followed the same
routine for the last 20 years
and proudly displays the pla-
que which honors him for his
distinguished service to the
residents of the home.
Eight years ago, some 34
years after the young man
waited for a British ship to
take him to Palestine, Fried-
man made his first visit to
Israel. From the top of
Masada he scooped up a
handful of sand, and later he
took that sand back to the
forest in Europe outside of the
village where he had witness-
ed the terrible Nazi atrocities.
"I needed to link that grave
to the State of Israel."
So, too, with his handsome
sculptures — Henry Fried-
man has found his own per-
sonal way to forge beautiful
memorials from discarded
parts.
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