Mori Girl by Yoshitomo Nara Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Painted Maple wood Dimensions: height 29 cm Year: 2012 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?Mori Girl turns a conifer silhouette into both hairstyle and shelter, making identity appear inseparable from an exaggerated image of nature. Nara reduces the figure to an oversized head, direct gaze and small body, then disrupts that familiar childlike format by letting the tree dominate its proportions.In the photograph, layered, drooping branches narrow to a sharp peak above large crosshatched eyes. The frontal symmetry feels emblematic, while irregular foliage keeps the outline active.The documented painted maple gives the sculpture a solid wooden structure while allowing facial marks and shifts of green, yellow and brown to distinguish figure, garment and foliage.At 29 centimetres high, the work concentrates a question often separated across portraiture and landscape: where does the character end and the environment begin? Its compact scale sharpens that visual fusion. About the ArtistYoshitomo Nara Yoshitomo Nara is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Japanese Contemporary artist known for whimsical, childlike figures in his work.
