Going back to stone
I am watching a short video on Isamu Noguchi by SFMoMA and I particularly found his remarks on the limitations of the industry relevant.
If you want to live and work in an industrialized situation, you have to use industrial materials and tools, you see. However, I was not quite satisfied with that, because I felt the limitations of such tools, forced one to be a part of industry rather than free. And I felt that the more old-fashioned way of doing things, for instance with stone, with your own hands, left you a greater freedom. And so I went back to stone.
Noguchi continues to explain how he then went to work on wood, and then back in the industry. He explains that if you break free of the time that you are living in, it opens up possibilities.
But if you’re caught in time, or the immediate present time, then your choice is very limited. You can only do certain things really correctly belonging to that time. But if you want to escape from that time constraint, then the whole world—you see, I mean not just the most industrialized world, but the whole world—is someplace where you belong.
Very well put! Here is the entire video:
