Mariko Mori Fan Art

I’m working on a brief presentation on postwar Japanese performance art and I was looking for Mariko Mori (in the context of the use of costume by post-performance artists) and I found the above fan art by Ashley, a.k.a. Ashli-chan, in a Google image search. Why is it that I’m always running into furry/cosplay oriented websites from the early days of the Internet (the above image is hosted on Angelfire and has been hanging around since the barely silicon-age of 2002) when I go looking for things? Is it a sign? I don’t know. Anyways the above image is based upon the image below, Birth of a Star (1995).

Oh, and in a way that makes just totally perfect sense, there’s a collectible doll/multiple sculpture/marketing opportunity of the above image, Star Doll (1998), seen below.

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