96 Tears / Don't Take the Train Coming Down the Track
Artist
Mary Preston
(American, born 1950)
Datec.1978
MediumWood, crayon, paint
Dimensions1 1/2 × 57 × 1 1/2 in. (3.8 × 144.8 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of John Hilberry, 2015
Object numberUAC6420
Description"96 Tears/Don’t Take the Train Coming Down the Track (circa 1978) Was made from a wooden tomato stake abandoned in Michael Luch’s garden on 4th Street. The crisscross shapes that I call "tracks" were cut with a jeweler’s saw using hardware store yardsticks. Some of the red staining is from shoe polish. It was a kind of vessel to move what I was feeling out and away from me. " Mary Preston 5-18-22Collections
