I went to the Isamu Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. I would say the experience was like going to church on Sunday if I had ever been. But I have been inside of churches and felt that same spiritual air at the museum last Sunday.

Although I would like to I do not intend to go into Noguchi's entire career but instead I wanted to just touch on a few of the things that really struck me in his work. The first being the feeling of spirituality, the whole time I had the feeling that I was in a temple looking at idols of forgotten gods. I felt that each piece held a debt to someone or someplace. Noguchi's spirituality is within nature. He had amazing conversations with dirt and overheard secrets from trees. His work always contains some contemplation and worshipping the earth in various ways. He treats the earth like a body without commentary only dedication and meditation. Noguchi was a nomad, he identified with the surface of the earth more than any culture paved over it.

His earthworks and playgrounds where he actually contoured every surface of the landscape were Noguchi at his best. A form I found especially captivating in his work was the ring. This is most prevalent and obvious in his sacred rocks piece. However it it shows up in different places throughout his work. Rings or elements encircled, either sunken, on or elevated on a mound like circles of protection. The ring as a form carries enough meaning or feeling to study for a lifetime, but one thing is certain, it has an ability to calm the viewer and I just enjoyed it

Noguchi is the master of working with the earth as his medium for new and exciting experiences and allowing a new harmony between bodies, the body and the landscape.
Noguchi Museum