Isamu Noguchi, Core Piece #1
On View   Original Collection

Core Piece #1

1974
Basalt
The making of sculpture becomes a ritual when the sculptor becomes as one with it and the parts fall into its whole as if in a trance.

The residue returns to the earth, or on occasion reappears clothed in new identity. These core pieces were once core residue of The Inner Stone of Area 4.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.