BENTONVILLE Work evokes Indians’ trail near Bridges
Ex-Huntsville artist uses 34 native sandstone pillars
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Boulder Construction employee Salvador Garcia of Bella Vista waters the area around the sculpture A Place Where They Cried after its installation Wednesday beside the walking trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.
Photo by Jason Ivester
The knobby, carved texture of sandstone pillars mimics the human form in a new sculptural installation at the construction site of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
A Place Where They Cried, by a former Arkansan, is composed of 34 pillars excavated from the Boston Mountains and arranged in varying densities to represent the forced migration of American Indians along the Trail of Tears, which once passed within a few miles of the museum’s walking trail.
Pat Musick, formerly of Huntsville, completed a week of work Wednesday, guiding a team of stonemasons in hoisting the large monoliths into place to form the sculpture.
“It’s hard to think about anything else when I’m working on it,” she ...
Artist Pat Musick + Enlarge
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Northwest Arkansas, Pages 7 on 05/08/2010
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