I like them because they remind me of the wood sculptures created by outsider folk artists. They exhibit a roughness like that of the carvings of Minnie Adkins
http://www.anntowergallery.com/artist_adkins.htm(the possum sculpture with the little babies hanging off of the tail are adorable)
Might not be for everyone's taste, but the texture adds to the interest and the charm, and conceptually, he's captured what girls in japan look like today
. The expressions and the postures are nicely rendered in wood--very casual, not at all stiff. You half expect them to come alive and ask you if you want to dance with them
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P.S. Alice, I like them too
! The soft dolls in the Ueno video, however, are a bit too spooky for me though
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