Worry Upon Worry Beads Coming Undone consists of unique worry beads and steel wire. The unique worry beads are fabricated from recycled tin cans, stainless steel cable, brass tubing. Each bead has sharp pinked edges which make the beads very painful to handle — a metaphor for all the painful things we do to ourselves with food. The tassel is made from steel wire with constructed sterling ferrule looks very soft but is stiff and sharp.

Dimensions: 2.5 - 3” Diameter (per bead); 26” L (stainless steel cable)

Promised Gift to the Permanent Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anonymous Donor

© Harriete Estel Berman, 1987, 2021