For the past several years Aoshima has worked as an artist and in-house computer technician for Takashi Murakami, the progenitor of Superflat.

The doe-eyed ingénues in Chiho Aoshima’;s digital drawings seem to emerge from beyond nature itself. It’;s as if they were born whole within a garden of unreality populated by themes milled from centuries of Japanese culture, ranging from Edo scrolls to Sailor Moon…

Zombies in the graveyard, 2001

She combines print-outs from a giant canon printer, leathers, and plastic mediums to construct her two-dimensional works, creating a unique style that is neither art nor the product of a defined subculture.