Hajime Sorayama is the Japanese illustrator who, more than anyone, invented the image of the chrome female robot now everywhere in film and fashion. He painted his first one in 1978, after a client asked for a figure resembling Star Wars' C-3PO without infringing the copyright. He has been candid that rendering the female nude in chrome was partly a workaround for Japan's obscenity laws: as bare skin it counted as pornography, as polished metal it counted as futuristic art. Outside his own work, he designed Sony's AIBO robot dog, now held by MoMA and the Smithsonian. This is that lifelong figure cast as a sculpture, at one-sixth scale, mirror-polished so it reflects whatever stands in front of it. Sorayama has spent nearly fifty years refining the same image, including through collaborations with Dior and KAWS.