For this piece I wanted to compare iconography in Japan again however this time I decided to achieve the detail that lacked in my previous piece, it was best to have collage as a base instead of incorporating it into the main image. Therefore I decided to draw the Geisha as cartoons as a reference to the massive culture of anime and cartoon drawings in Japan.
I drew this on top of ripped up, coffee stained extracts out of the book 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. I read this book as I began re-searching my topic and it gave me a much better understanding of Geisha culture and the history of it. I coffee-stained them to show how the Geisha community is in serious decline and instead of being one of Japan's current icons, it is instead a fading tradition.
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