Reclining Figure

Nishigawara reduces histories and artefacts of culture into interpretive vignettes, acting upon his curiosity in a contemplative and interpretive manner that often finds figurative elements reduced to shortened, deformed, or incomplete divisions of the body. The ‘Reclining Figure’ is a subtle example, the body of the female complete but curiously foreshortened. A use of burnished white porcelain and classically Western or European styling links with subtle Asian traits to downplay frames of reference and increase focus on aspects of beauty and eroticism.