About this character:
Many European architecture before modern era has 3 windows in classic, symmetric design in main rooms of important buildings such as a courthouse, a museum, a palace. About a decade ago, as an architect, Ben Ryuki Miyagi started incorporating such 3 windows in his designs of architecture.
His obsessions with 3 windows now took on the soul of its own, evolving into an art character that looks like a bear, a cat or a rabbit, with ribbons, tiaras, stars, hearts, stitches. This character is named something beary in one word, depending on its style.
About this work:
This unique art work is hand made with flexible polyester fabric, with soft cushions inside, like a plush toy. This is hand made, hand cut, hand sewn, hand painted, all by architect Ben Ryuki Miyagi himself in Kyoto. Not a single industrial machine was used in the making of this art.
Surface is hand painted with fluorescent markers and acrylics. This is much more than just a sculpture or a plush. This is more like a very unique 3 dimensional painting.
There is a hook on the back, so this can be hung on wall like a painting. Or this can be displayed on a table or sofa, against a wall or backrest. This can also stand on its own, when used with thin flat oval shaped base.
As a very lightweight plush, the shipping cost, and the risk of damage during shipping, is expected to be minimized, compared to heavier, more fragile sculpture.
This is a contemporary art at the intersection of high art, pop culture, subculture of toys and cartoon characters.
Size:
Plush part is 47cm tall x 32cm wide x 19cm deep
Price of this art includes a removable oval base, which is 29cm wide x 22cm deep x 3mm thick. This plywood base is painted in black, with a vertical metal rod attached in the center, which can be optionally inserted into a plastic tube inside of this art, so it can stand on its own.
Video:
You can see a video of this piece, or similar one, at Instagram,
@architect_ben_ryuki_miyagi
at highlight (circle near the top), “Art, Original” , or in reel, or in post feed
