Artist Name:
Howard Finster
Nationality & Life Dates:
American, 1916–2001
Title:
Howard's Tools Section of Sidewalk from Paradise Garden
Date:
ca. 1981
Medium:
Concrete embedded with metal, glass, mirrors, nails, and wire
Dimensions:
3 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 48 inches
Credit Line:
Purchase with funds from the Cousins Foundation, Inc. and donors to the Paradise Project Campaign
Accession Number:
1994.218
On View - Stent Family Wing, Skyway Level, Gallery 408
Concrete pathways embellished with inlaid patterns of broken mirrors, shimmering glass, tile, jewelry, and found objects wound throughout Paradise Garden. This section of sidewalk contains the tools Finster used when he worked as a bicycle repairman. As he recounted, “When I found out for sure that God called me to do sacred art, I molded my tools in the walkway as evidence.” The sidewalk itself declares, “HOWARD’S TOOLS AFTER JOINING ARTIST WORLD DISCARDED TOOLS.”