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"Almost every day for the past five years, the Kanagawa-born artist Lito has
drawn an image on to a leaf – usually a jaunty scene from the animal world
involving, say, a biker-dude rabbit or a frog in a phone box – and carved it
out with a scalpel before posting a photograph to social media. A painstaking
process, it nonetheless suits Lito’s “propensity to devote long hours to
detailed work” – a diagnosis of ADHD aged 30 was what prompted him to quit his
corporate job and start carving leaves for a living. And a living it is: he’s
sold 300,000 copies of his leaf-art books to date and exhibits his work
throughout Japan. The combination of playful Studio Ghibli-esque imagination
and exhaustive attention to detail is central to the appeal."
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