MEDSAN - Stained Glass Totoro in the Rain (ステンドグラスのトトロと雨) - UNIQUE WORK

ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD - EDITION 1/1

With this square-format work, Medsan brings Totoro, the forest spirit from Studio Ghibli imagined by Hayao Miyazaki, into My Neighbor Totoro (1988) into the vocabulary of Gothic stained glass. The rain-soaked bus stop scene, one of the most famous shots in Japanese animation, is here rendered in colored glass bordered by lead. Around the great gray spirit, the small white Totoro figures emerge from the foliage like secondary figures in a predella. The cartouche メドサン signs the work at the bottom center.

The treatment faithfully reproduces the grammar of stained glass: network of black lead came, marbled and opalescent glasses, cathedral glass striped for rain falling in silver diagonals. The palette contrasts the gray, milky body veined like agate glass with the vegetal mosaic of greens, deep blues, ruby reds and amber yellows that saturate the edges. The composition is frontal, almost th deity-like, with the translucent umbrella as a canopy and the green leaf resting on the skull like a gem set. The bubbles and impurities in the glass, visible in the belly and the crown of the umbrella, give the splash its artisanal texture.

The resemblance is closer than it seems: stained glass has long represented the sacred, and Totoro is indeed a protective deity, a kami of the Japanese forest. By placing him within the structure of a church’s stained-glass window, Medsan openly recognizes this status of protective spirit and makes its worship visible. The light passing through the composition then becomes the real subject: that of Shinto animism, filtered through an Western technique.

A luminous and contemplative piece, ideal for adding a poetic and graphic touch to the interior of a collector sensitive to the dialogue between spirituality, glass craftsmanship and Japanese pop culture.

Technical specifications:
Artist: Medsan
Reference: Totoro / stained glass / Studio Ghibli / Miyazaki / forest spirit / rain
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Edition: Unique work — 1/1 (one-of-a-kind worldwide)
Year: 2026
Support: Giclée mounted on wooden frame (thickness about 2 cm)
Signature: Yes, hand-signed
Condition: Excellent condition
Certificate: Certificate of authenticity (on request)

About the Studio:
Atelier Joconde is a studio of artists united around a living, plural contemporary creation. Set up as a true center of artistic production, the studio operates both in collective creation and in individual approaches, depending on the projects and artworks. Atelier Joconde is also a family venture. Le Yack, a contemporary figurative painter, develops a narrative and introspective body of work with cinematic and realistic influences. Beside him, Medsan, oriented toward pop art painting, explores color, modern iconography and visual culture. Finally, Neo Pablo engages in a more instinctive search, blending abstract art, brut art and figurative abstraction. Each work is conceived, realized and supervised within the studio, with a shared artistic standard and an identity unique to each artist.

Keywords:
Medsan, Atelier Joconde, Le Yack, Totoro, Stained Glass, Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki, Forest Spirit, Rain, Square Format, Contemporary, Unique Work, 1/1