As Jesus processed to his death on Good Friday, the Jewish women wailed for the loss of their great leader. Daniel Pressley’s relief carving seen here captures that anguish, that grief, unleashed by the death of a loved one. Titled The Soprano at the Mourning Easter Wake of 1968, it depicts one of the singers at Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorial service in Memphis the day after he was assassinated. She wrings her gloved hands and lets out an agonized moan, her eyes heavy with tears. The brim of her hat looks like a halo, and a cross dangles from around her neck.