Radio Nurse
URI Cooridor Galleries
Fall 2005
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Radio Nurse URI Cooridor Galleries Fall 2005
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These heavy, hand-held transmitters are stand-ins for baby walkie-talkies. They grew out of an idea by Isamu Noguchi, who built a Bakelite, industrial baby monitor to transmit sounds from an infant's room to a crazy-looking console. Noguchi's form was highly sculptural, evoking the abstract head of a surrogate nurse. These concrete-steel embodiments seek to evoke the distance between a fear and awe of child-care and the military battlefields where those children, when grown to manhood or womanhood, have to communicate with fellow soldiers to stay alive.
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