- “Magritte’s Stone“
- 2022
British-made Oak Bark leather - Isamu Noguchi’s “Magritte’s Stone” is an abstract sculpture based on a painting by surrealist Rene Magritte. As Misawa sees everything as relating to the form of a shoe, it becomes a sandal floating into the air. The sole, with a cross-section of rugged texture that was meticulously calculated, is fitted with silver foil leather as a tribute to Noguchi’s work. The shape of the silver parts is sculpted for the anatomically-defined distribution of plantar pressure during walking. It naturally produces a force that pulls downward, like the rippling sea at the bottom of Magritte’s original, “The Castle of the Pyrenees,” and accentuates the floating essence of the shoe as a whole. It is a surrealistic sandal, a wearable work of art based on the “metaphysical painting” of Magritte on canvas with oil paints and Noguchi in sculpture.