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 ink markers, fluorescent markers, acrylics paints and acrylic markers. 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 36.8cm tall x 31.2cm wide x 16.8cm deep
Price of this art includes a removable oval base, which is 19cm wide x 15cm 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
