Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) Atomic Haystack - N°8/18 Sculpture Galvanised steel Gemini G.E.L. Edition, limited to 18 copies Signed and dated 'IN 82' at bottom Publisher's plaque 'Isamu Noguchi Atomic Haystack 8/18 Isamu Noguchi Foundation 1983' on base on the base Created in 1982/83 H 122.5 × W 122 × D 38 cm Note: This work is a continuation of Isamu Noguchi's effort Isamu Noguchi's efforts to commemorate through his commemorates the human disaster caused by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its arch according to the Noguchi Foundation, evokes traditional Japanese funeral sculptures, but also an atomic fireball in the first milliseconds milliseconds of an explosion. This shape could also be seen as as a bridge, as embodied by the philanthropic embodied by Isamu Noguchi between Japan and the the United States.