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Embroidered insect brooches neatly contained in specimen boxes by Vancouver-based artist Hine Mizushima. The brooches, created using hand-dyed Kogin fabrics, threads and Japanese glass beads, are for a group exhibition entitled The Kingdom of Specimens at Ranbu Gallery in Osaka, Japan. Mizushima is a multidisciplinary artist who majored in traditional Japanese paintings before working as a designer/illustrator in Tokyo. She has created needle-felt sculptures, which have been widely exhibited and has done stop-motion puppet animation for several commercial music videos.
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