Fujita Minako
The moment Japanese artist Fujita Minako’s site comes up, and I get a load of that adorable floating island, I think Howl’s Moving Castle! I’m hooked. Diving into the rest of her site, I’m even more won over. She has such a way with landscape vignettes and little buildings. This stuff is straight out of my most pleasant day dreams.
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