Masami Jizo

Masamijizo is a small stone statue representing bodhisattva -a person  who has generated a  compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood- made by  Masami Yamagiwa. Yamagiwa has created hundreds of thousand of these small statues at  Atelier Yamanami in Japan (http://a-yamanami.jp/wordpress/artists/yamagiwa/)  over more than 20 years.

Some of Art Brut creators are well-known for their attachment to certain forms and constant recreation of these forms. Far from being an obsessive repetition of a form, each of their  works  seems to be a eulogy for infinite number of faces a form can take.