Automobile tire, plastic chair, cinder-block fragment
43 x 28.5 x 22 inches
Collection of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description
One assemblage from Sewell's yard stands out. It is her monument to faith, a white plastic chair perched on a white-painted automobile tire. A chunk of cinder block has been placed in the seat. Again, she sings a sort of free-form improvisational gospel hymn:
I am going through. I’ll pay the price. I’ll take the way And fly into the sky. So many, they started out But didn’t make it through Because they turned away from Jesus. Go along with Jesus: He’ll see you through.