In a Strange Forest...
Takashi Murakami
DOB in the Strange Forest, 1999
"Murakami claimed that this creation of an autonomous aesthetic space within the framework of realistic representation - a parasitic practice that finally overtakes and transforms the body of its host - is the radical spirit of the Japanese two-dimensional aesthetic, or what he calls 'Superflat' art." - Matsui, The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning
Oh Murakami... why must you be so perplexing.
In other news... got a Totoro pencil case and makes me smile whenever I see it. The embroidered Totoro is sitting there with his lil' umbrella looking like "Are we anticipating rain today?" Rawr. Pwned.