Here, sculptural elements are precariously suspended in space by a thread, seemingly orbiting around a lunar surface. This other-worldly composition may have been influenced by Isamu Noguchi’s experience at an internment camp. Following the 1942 bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt declared all Americans of Japanese ancestry “enemy aliens,” forcing 113,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast into camps and surveilling those on the East Coast. Although Noguchi lived in New York, he voluntarily entered an Arizona internment camp with the goal of creating hope through art. However, he quickly became disillusioned. Upon his return to New York, Noguchi created this work as part of his Lunar series, a group of illuminated light sculptures influenced by the Arizona desert and his fascination with the “reflection of light on form.”