#10452 Finding a Hidden Zen Moment in an Art Museum in New York, New York

Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Water Stone—specially commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art—is so deceptively simple most overlook it. After all, it just looks like a big rock with a basin cut into the top. But a pump inside the rock slowly and gently fills the basin with water, sending the overflow seeping down the sides and into the bed of white stones at its base. The gentle trickling in the quiet hall tempts you to sit and rest for just a minute, to clear your mind, and just listen to its quiet murmur.