Photo: Trevor Lloyd
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Isamu Noguchi prepared for the end of the world and a transplanted society in outer space by creating a proposal for a land art piece, to be titled Memorial to Man, which he later changed to Sculpture to be Seen from Mars. However, the sand model which Noguchi created was destroyed by the artist himself and the project never realized. Meant to be viewed from above, the monumental work-to-be outlined a human face, a testament to the history and destruction of humankind.
