Gift

Gift

1964
African marble
I am an inveterate experimenter. My whole involvement with stone might be said to be facets of one search, a mad chase within a single medium to find and overcome its further frontiers of possibility, which continually recede. A case in point is Gift, which was cut in Italy but which did not find its final form until New York a good deal later when Gene Owens was helping and we drilled holes through the elements to find their proper alignment. This is all one stone.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.