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The Bird Girls (installation view) by Alisa Tanaka-King — Japanese Sumi-ink portrait series on paper (74 sheets), 2016-2017

The Bird Girls (installation view)

by Alisa Tanaka-King

Date:
2016-2017
Medium:
Sumi-ink portrait series on paper (74 sheets)
Image courtesy of
Artist's official site

Description

This image doesn't match its metadata — worth flagging before you use this anywhere. The picture shows two sparse ink drawings of bare trees, not human figures, a "bird girls" subject, or anything resembling a portrait series.

Description of what the image actually shows:

Two slender trees rendered in fine sumi-ink line work stand on a plain white ground, positioned left of center with broad empty space to the right. The taller tree on the left has a single unbroken trunk with sparse, feathery clusters of needle-like foliage branching along its height; the shorter tree to its right forks partway up into a rounded crown of small leaf or bud clusters. The drawing is monochrome, spare, and delicate, with no human figures, birds, or portrait subjects visible anywhere in the frame.

Given the title ("The Bird Girls (installation view)") and medium ("Sumi-ink portrait series on paper, 74 sheets") describe a figurative installation, but the image is a botanical/tree study, this looks like a genuine image–caption mismatch rather than something I can write a faithful caption for under the given facts.

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The Bird Girls (installation view) was created by Alisa Tanaka-King in 2016-2017.

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