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Lot Essay
"I love the use of stone, because it is the most...meaning-impregnated material. The whole world is made of stone... Stone is the direct link to the heart of matter--a molecular link. When I tap it, I get an echo of that which we are. Then, the whole universe has resonance." (Isamu Noguchi, cited in Valerie J. Fletcher, Isamu Noguchi : Master Sculptor, exh.cat, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004, p. 141.)
In Hindu religion, the 'bindu' is the self-contained, self-originating seed of all existence and consciousness. It is the primordial and unified entity containing all positive and negative energy within itself, the invisible point from which all that exists in the universe originally sprang. In much Asian painting the 'bindu' is often represented as a dot or point at the center of a mandala or yantra. In Tantric Buddhism the 'bindu' often takes the physical form of semen.
In this work Noguchi has represented the bindu as a lingam-like stone sculpture. Like the idea of the primordial seed itself, it is a single entity seemingly united and separated into two elegant and equal parts.
In Hindu religion, the 'bindu' is the self-contained, self-originating seed of all existence and consciousness. It is the primordial and unified entity containing all positive and negative energy within itself, the invisible point from which all that exists in the universe originally sprang. In much Asian painting the 'bindu' is often represented as a dot or point at the center of a mandala or yantra. In Tantric Buddhism the 'bindu' often takes the physical form of semen.
In this work Noguchi has represented the bindu as a lingam-like stone sculpture. Like the idea of the primordial seed itself, it is a single entity seemingly united and separated into two elegant and equal parts.