The art of Zipora Fried is a compelling and articulate example of artistic expression as both a dedicated process and a mindful end-experience. The dense graphite drawings are the result of a slow, laborious accumulation of lines filling a vast picture plane, up to 28 feet long. Those who encounter them are awed by their sheer scale and the apparent intensity of their execution.

Fried says of her artwork, "The drawings are emphatically handmade in a very slow process. I like to challenge the viewer to consider the monotony involved in this, the repetition, the essence of time, the rhythm and the endurance."

Her meticulous pieces embody “timescapes” that index the evolution of the artist’s arduous process over time, and enable the viewer to visualize and contemplate the essence of time. She explains, "If someone were to watch the process of these drawings, the understanding of a landscape of time would be clear: Imagine a city with workers drawing kilometers of these drawings on indestructible paper. Other workers refill the graphite pencils, others clean the piles of dust. When they retire, the drawings are hung up from the sky [as] curtains of time."