
Paintings by Erika Yamashiro

Makiko Sugawa is a Japanese illustrator whose highly detailed line drawings are both playful and provocative. She has a way of effortlessly mixing the two qualities with an end result that makes you wonder how one ever could exist without the other. Many of her images feature women with prosthetic or amputated limbs, this a [...]

Izima Kaoru is a Japanese photographer currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. Since 1993 he has been photographing actresses and models in staged fantasies of their perfect death. He has each woman choose the designer clothes they want to be wearing when they die. The end results are these breathtaking scenes, where the very [...]