Love, loss, and my Noguchi lamp
The paper lantern that taught me how to live with love lost It seems excessive to pay $145 for some crinkled, molded paper. Yet that?s exactly what I did when I bought myself a Noguchi Akari lamp last year.
Should you peruse Pinterest and your aesthetic skews minimalist, you?ve likely seen these before, tucked into the corner of a stunningly spare space, filling the room with quiet radiance.
Actually called ?light sculptures,? they were conceived by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. One summer earlier, I almost bought one off Craigslist. Ordered for a party; hardly used; still in box, the seller wrote. It was $100. Still, I couldn?t justify the cost.
Then I fell in love?or something like it. Like my new romantic relationship, the lamp purchase was unexpected and wildly irrational. (We were long-distance; he lived in D.C.) One freezing day in February, we ventured to the Noguchi Museum in Queens. Together we sat on a curved sofa near the window while I sipped ginger tea and admired the 36 light sculptures, all neatly placed on the surrounding shelves in the gift shop. ?Should I buy one"? I asked him.
?Sure,? he said. That was all the affirmation I needed.
Although I had pined over the pristine, minimal white, I bought mine in unexpected orange instead. ?I?ll always remember the day we came here,? my thinking went. I didn?t want a physical relic of our relationship to be bland and inoffensive, expected and tasteful. I failed to consider that I migh...
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