Friedensohn's voyage as a narrative artist encompasses interior worlds of anguish, fear, manic play and transcendent love; also cityscapes, seascapes, exotic markets and late 20th century airports.
The tone of this varied and inventive work ranges from compassionate and gently ironic to grimly satiric and vitriolic. Unifying the work, he explained, is a "commitment to the human figure as the most significant vehicle of artistic creation."