Sorrow

Sorrow presents a figure in the grip of grief — an unusual emotional subject for Mori, whose work was predominantly celebratory and theatrical in its register. The shift toward emotional interiority suggests either a biographical dimension or a deliberate expansion of his subject range into more psychologically complex territory. His stencil technique, with its bold color areas and decisive outlines, translated the subject's emotional content into graphic terms: the posture of grief, the downward cast of the figure's gaze, the weight of sorrow carried in the body's attitude.