Mask Seller Ii (Seated Figure with Masks and Birds)

This sculptural figure sits in a posture of weary containment, the polished bronze body holding its own weight as if bracing against an invisible tide of memory. A cluster of blue, mask-like faces blooms over the shoulder like a chorus of unspoken selves—cool in tone, spectral in presence—while the small bird forms perched along the chair introduce a fragile counterpoint of witness and quiet endurance. The composition tightens around the chest and clenched arm, turning the chair into both sanctuary and restraint, suggesting how identity is carried not as a single visage but as a layered accumulation of roles, regrets, and survival.