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The Spirit&#8217;s Flight
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The Spirit’s Flight

1969
Carrara marble, Serpentine
My studies of post-tensioned marble started with this piece. The fact that alternating colors of marble somewhat resemble the layered use of different marbles in Tuscan churches is purely fortuitous and is not a stylistic derivation.
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Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.