1990
Granite
Weight 55 ton, Height 4.5 m
Enshunada Coastal Park, Shizuoka Prefecture
Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture “Momo Taro” has the hollowed-out granite. Visitors are invited to enter, to sit and to see outside from the hollow.
I liked this idea, and I made this monument to pay the repect to Mr. Noguchi.
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At quarry in Ibaragi Prefecture, I found a tip of rock. After digging the surrounding soil, it turned out about 12 tatami (about 20㎡) rock.
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I imagined humans are surrounding this rock, and carved a life-size dente so they can go in. Then I sculpted aliens.
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This monument weigh 55 ton. It was a tough traveling over Hakone mountains on the trailer.
