"Shoo Shoe Train" refresh

This piece was sold way back in 2011 after showing at Hopkins Artstreet, Hopkins, MN and it's been a while since the piece was 'refreshed' by being repainted along with a minor repair underneath. It had debuted in 2010 shortly after it was made in Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.
So it's been a while but it was in really great shape so a nice cleaning and new paint did the trick.

Look for it in Downtown Hopkins soon...

Here's the info about it from Hopkins in 2011.

Public Art in Hopkins
"Shoo-Shoe Train"

Kyle Fokken, Minneapolis, MN
Painted Steel, Copper
Kyle Fokken's Website
Donated in 2011 by Hopkins Business & Civic Association and ThinkHopkins.com

Sculpture of Train

Fokken of Minneapolis reveals his love of antique toys in his mixed media work, but always with an idiosyncratic and modern take; his sculptures combine nostalgia with futuristic fantasy.

The sculpture in Hopkins is from a series based on locomotive forms and also includes a wooden shoe, a recurring image in Fokken's work that speaks to humble origins but to the idea of a mundane object that also possesses the power to sabotage.