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Article: Junko Mizuno - Crazy In A Good Way
Posted: June 4, 2013
In 2005, Milk Gallery in New York invited Japanese artist Junko Mizuno to join photographer Annie Leibovitz, fashion designer Betsey Johnson and others to participate in The Pony Project. Mizuno recalls, “Every artist was provided with a huge, blank My Little Pony toy for them to customise. I made mine into ‘Witch Pony’ wearing a black hooded cape.” Her sinister twist to the sugary-sweet girls’ craze encapsulates her distinctive blending of ‘kawaii’, the cult of cute in Japan, with the macabre and erotic. Read the rest of my Article and Junko’s new two-page comic here…
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