Nobuo Sekine "Phase—Mother Earth", 1968 Earth, cement Cylinder: 220 x 270 (diameter) cm, hole: 220 x 270 (diameter) cm Photo by Osamu Murai
Removing the mould from 'Phase - Mother Earth'
Sekine described the moment when they removed the mould:
“Faced with this solid block of raw earth, the power of this object of reality rendered everybody speechless, and we stood there, rooted to the spot… I just wondered at the power of the convex and concave earth, the sheer physicality of it. I could feel the passing of time’s quiet emptiness… That was the birth of ‘Mono-ha’.”










