Kenkyusei (postgraduate research) project Cartoon Class on ‘Usagi-chan – the role of woman in Japan’ at Seika University of Art, Kyoto, in the Manga Department, 2008/09;
ink on paper, 27 cm x 35 cm /10.6 in x 13.8 in.
The drawings show various female figures wearing bunny-ears as a symbol for female assumed or actual submissiveness, as well as human naivety and false hope, but also courage and strength, that can be combined with each other.
[* SOLD to private collector; this is one sale I honestly very much regret, but it’s too late now, gone is gone.]
Brainclouds and Kanjiswamp (2008/09)
Kanji Cafe (2008/09)
Sitzengeblieben / MAI (2008/09)
she wants to pretend she is a bunny (2008/09)
Flowergirl and Odette (2008/09)
This time it feels real (2008/09)
little mermaid – now what? (2008/09)
[* 80 YEN postage stamp]
Snow White is confessing to her stepmother all her fears and worries about growing up (2008/09)
[* homage to Jean Fouquet, “The Melun Diptych”, 1452]