Noguchi was born to an American journalist mother and the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi in Los Angeles in 1904. Throughout his life he divided his time between Japan and north America, working with the materials he felt appropriate; steel and industrial materials in the U.S, clay, granite and basalt in Japan. During his later years he spent an increasing amount of time in his studio on the island of Shikoku, Japan, concentrating on working hard materials like basalt. He developed a style that became hugely influential, in which large areas of the surface of the stone are left untouched and other parts worked to a smooth finish – this technique can be seen on Sculpture Finding. This work was kindly offered on long term loan by the Noguchi Museum, New York after the 2008 Isamu Noguchi exhibition at YSP.