The wrapping in Friedlander's studio practice is an exaggeration of a cross-cultural signifier of how we manifest our care, support, and love, and how we heal our communities and ourselves. The need for wrapping is innate in human beings. “From the semiotic point of view, representations of transcendence (wrapping) are fundamentally those that bring about in human beings a transcendental dynamics of cognition, emotion and imagination. It is the infinitude of semiosis that awaits human being beyond the sign."
The dialectic between what is hidden and what is revealed, what is …