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In Butterflies and the Human Soul, a series of delicate small-scale watercolour paintings are embodied with the meta-themes of magic realism. Migrating monarch butterflies and isolated grounds sweepers of the Shinto shrines of Tokyo emerge from pristine white fields with a dream like sharpness that seems to exist without shadows, evocative of the mythological and the mysterious- and all the hidden complexities of the human soul. Each work could serve as an illustration for the fiction of Haruki Murakami, as the images...more