Lila

By Erik Davis
With its floating Roger Deanscapes and hallucinogenic flora, the manifest world of Avatar instead spoke another truth: that the jungle pantheism that now pervades the psychoactive counterculture has gone thoroughly mainstream.

Japi Honoo describes her imagery as stories of her “state of mind”. Her stories express “feeling out of time and belong to every age.” For Japi, digital techniques can assume the same function as the paint brush, enabling her to create new worlds and possibilities for the interpretation of femininity.