Tall standing sculpture in black bronze. Pendulous limbs hang down from a central base at the top.

Mortality

1959 (cast 1965)
Black patina, Bronze
The mortal remains of skin and bones, the tears of things. Hanging weight is where bronze functions. Our pendulous and precarious existence is shaped by gravity.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.