I went to 首都圏外郭放水路, an underground dam to prevent flooding. 2 hours in train and 1 hour walk from the station. 1 hour of lectures and 10 minutes of actual tour. It was very cool inside, majestic and unreal. You can book the tour here.
I have turned in my thesis for Bachelor of Arts degree! After I hopefully pass the oral examination, I’m graduating university in September.
Things are happening, and I am closing down my Etsy shop and going to stop selling prints via the internet in September as well. Get them while you can 
Crystal Skull
“Women are all inferiors” / “Present within design of ancienct Puebloan form, the image focuses Native American’s ambiguous relationship with US armed forces” (said the descriptions)
Fell in love with the table, going to get this one day / kickass chair
So cool! I love ships in a bottle. / whole length of its body is probably shorter than your pinky finger. i forgot what it was. at natural history museum
Soooo small! (around 4cm diameter) / urns used by ancient Londoners
Flora / original Aubrey Beardsley!
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Address: The West Park of Inokashira Park, 1-1-83 Shimorenjaku, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-0013
Ghibli Museum! 
A very pretty museum at the corner of Inokashira Park. There was a room dedicated to how animation works, two rooms that resembled the animation studio and Mr Miyazaki’s inspiration walls. There was a theatre which you can watch 20 minute animations, two museum shops, an area with neko bus in which only kids can play, and robot and stone from Laputa on the rooftop. There’s also temporary exhibitions and “Little Louvre Museum” exhibition was on, but not worth it for people who’s actually gone to the Louvre. I was a bit disappointed that it was way marketed to sell goods, and not as much peek into behind the scenes as I thought there would be. Nonetheless, it’s worth going!
My favourite Ghibli films are:
1. Nausicaa
2. Mononokehime
3. Sentochihironokamikakushi (Spirited Away)
KDDI Mobile in Forest was something like Chanel’s mobile art exhibition. Big brand promoting “art and artists”.. but actually happens to make them make “art” with their products, this time being their cell phones. It was generic, boring, and really disappointing that companies will not fund art unless they agree to blatantly promote them.
(a girl taking a photo of an installation)
For ongoing series of paintings.
30×30cm
Acrylics and ink on wood panel
30×30cm
Acrylics and ink on wood panel
This one get a bit political but I wanted to include a message..
Ainu are the native people in northern islands of japan (and parts that are now russia). They have been recognised by the japanese governess as indigenous people only last month. My thesis was on ethnic minorities in UK, mostly because I didn’t want to be disappointed with my country anymore. Racism in Japan is quite bad. It is based on a myth that Japan is a homogeneous nation. It is not. Most ethnic minorities hide their origins and have blended in with the "mainstream". then the way of life, words and rituals are forgotten.
The patterns on the bandana are the colours of their flag, the pattern is based on their traditional decoration, and bears are the most sacred animals to them. I am personally not Ainu but the ignorance of the majority of the Japanese people to dismiss anything remotely unrelated to them is upsetting. I’d like to go to Hokkaido and Karahuto/Sakhalin island someday.
Also, when you think about the "indigenous" way of life, it’s not "primitive" but the most advanced way to live. With word primitive comes the notion of evolution, and right now we are trying so very hard to be "ecological" which people in the old times have already figured out. But we are only realising that.
Thank you for the write-ups nineteeneightythree and 40fakes!
Communitychannel Natalie FTW with witty humour
Nigahiga cheeky cute Japanese Hawaiian boys
Rinpaeshidan Fluid, stylish drawings
wrapryouhou Ayatori, art with strings
My exhibition at Myogadani finished this week; thank you everyone for coming! I uploaded the photos on Facebook. I’m looking to do more shows, preferably at a gallery. Please let me know if you know of any or have tips on it.
More new works:
Seaweedy 2, 30×30cm
A commissioned piece.
They wanted something like this.
A new one that I’m colouring at the moment.
All the available originals are here.
Definitely moving away from digital images, and more into paintings now.
1. by a black little wind you were blown, 2. Creature, 3. Limited Edition Prints, 4. ecstasy -, 5. cry me an hologram, 6. S - Alberto Seveso, 7. Universered…, 8. White Fear, 9. juniper, 10. Illustration Friday: THEORY, 11. Half, 12. On mangera de délicieuses figues, 13. den sidst åndedræt i den fugle., 14. bird, 15. {The Commencer}, 16. fabric, 17. Las vigas, 18. y 04, 19. Untitled, 20. 825363238_73897028fe, 21. Ribs, 22. Good Magazine. Pages 1 and 2, 23. antlers etc, grrr I hate you, 24. Tvisions, 25. butterflies in her stomach
Images of Curvy 5 was on Australia’s ABC Sunday Arts show, and they showed my illustration in the end credits. My 2 seconds of fame on TV!
And some photos from the Melbourne exhibition, photos taken by Melissa, thank you<3
