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Mr.B

Mr. B, stepped out of his own world

Mr. B, a smooth pale hooded figure with a glowing amber slit for a face, standing on a pale ground

Mr. B in darkness, only the amber face slit and the hood's edge catching light — In the dark, only the line survives

Mr. B three-quarter view in darkness, the amber slit angled away — Three-quarter

Mr. B in silhouette with the face unlit, the hood's curve drawn only by a rim light — The hood, unlit

BOJOTOY is Mr. B made real. He belongs to the BOJOVERSE, the studio's own cosmos, and this is him lifted out of it and set down in ours: one soft volume, no seams, nothing added, built the way the studio builds shoes. A hooded figure with no mouth, no nose and no eyes, only a single horizontal slit that glows warm amber where a face should be.

Mr. B held up in a hand against a clear blue sky, the Eiffel Tower standing behind him — Paris, March 2025

Mr. B lifted up beneath the Eiffel Tower, the ironwork rising above him — Underneath, looking up

Mr. B raised into the open arch of the Eiffel Tower against blue sky — Into the arch

Withdrawing the features is what makes him work. There is no expression to read, so the posture has to carry everything, and the hood's long curve does the rest: he reads as calm, watching, slightly ceremonial. In the light he is a small pale figure. In the dark, only the line survives, and the body becomes an outline you fill in yourself.

Mr. B turned in the hand so the light catches his hood, the tower behind him — Turned, a figure, not an object

Mr. B standing unaided on a metal bollard, the Eiffel Tower filling the sky behind him — Set down, standing on his own

Mr. B on a bollard beneath the Eiffel Tower while a passer-by walks by in the background — The city walks past behind him

Produced as a 3D print, the studio's first move from things you wear into things you keep.

Mr. B alone on a metal bollard under the Eiffel Tower, seen wider — He owns the plinth

Mr. B standing on a stone mooring drum beside the water, a heavy chain coiled at its base — A drum of stone by the water

Mr. B standing on the quay beside a seated figure seen from behind, a bridge crossing the Seine ahead — Sat at the river, the bridge ahead

In March 2025 he spent an afternoon being carried around Paris. Held up into the iron of the Eiffel Tower. Set down on a bollard while the city walked past behind him. Left standing alone on a stone drum by the Seine. At that scale the pictures stop being product shots, he is not photographed against the city, he is somewhere in it: small, upright, unbothered, and the place has to make room for him.

Medium: Art toy, 3D printed
Role: Designer

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