At the end of 1942, after a six-month period of (initially voluntary) incarceration in an Arizona concentration camp for Japanese Americans, Noguchi embarked on a series of interlocking sculptures. Comprised of sheets of marble, slate and wood, carved and slotted together, these balanced forms are a testament to his unusually industrial-design-oriented conception of what it meant to be a sculptor and, in particular, an American artist. Noguchi wrote of the ‘ever-changing adjustment of the human

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Interested in the ephemeral nature of sculpture, Isamu Noguchi enjoyed toying with the idea of precarity when making interlocking sculptures in marble and slate (later reproduced in bronze and aluminum). Several of these works, which were made during Noguchi’s time working at his studio in New York City’s MacDougal Alley during the 1940s, are on view in the exhibition ‘Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation.’ __ Audio and photographs courtesy of The Noguchi Museum Archi