Comparable piece offered by Artnet Auctions in May 2011 for $20,000 - 25,000 Mandala was created during Tom Friedman's residency at the University of Massachusetts. The piece is composed of hundreds of images of the artist's work to date. With the help of six MFA students, the images were cropped and layered into the shape of a mandala - a Buddhist symbol of the cosmos. The effect is a sublime, hypnotic and beautiful example of Friedman's ability to transform the way we see everyday objects. As Friedman explains, 'The more closely I inspect something, the less clear it becomes: it's as if the object dissolves into itself, becoming ultimately not itself, a kind of negation that enhances its meaning.'