Core Passages
On View   Original Collection

Core Passages

1979
Basalt
I have attempted to expand the variety of carving. The drill, a hole with a coring tool, is a rotating pipe studded with diamonds. A hole is made, but not only a hole. The residue and the core are to be valued for themselves. One carves the whole of the hole.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.