This is a sculpture titled “High-Seven”, created by Sakura Hanafusa. The sculpture depicts seven cats, with their right front paws high up in the air, inviting you to high-five them. Sakura made this as her graduation project from art university in 2016. She wrote on Twitter that she not only wanted to make a piece to be looked and enjoyed; she wanted a piece that would be fun interacting with.
Each cat is carved individually from camphor wood and oil painted, and in an interview with Yahoo News, Hanafusa says she modeled the individual expressions of 6 of the cats after a [sic] her family cats, and 1 after a friend's.
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(Image Credit: Sakura Hanafusa)
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love high fives
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If she said it was an homage to Hello Kitty, she might get sued.
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It's Maneki Neko!
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Looks like they all want to hail a taxi!
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