Japanese Artist Akino Kondoh

Akino Kondoh's work is both visually stunning and disturbingly odd.
She is one of my biggest influences, combining Japanese precision with unsettling subject matter.
Her obsession with the feminine and how it affects female lives is vividly depicted in her artwork, using imagery such as young girls, insects, splashes of colour (red is often used) on black and white drawings and fur/flowers.
Reminds me of a Bjork lyric from 'Sun In My Mouth';

"...I will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers..."

She has also created a series of animation pieces, this one is my favourite.
I found it about five years ago and haven't stopped watching it yet...

Densha Kamo Shirenai

Densha Kamo Shirenai/Maybe A Train by Tama 

No one knows that I'm not here now
I'm waiting for you to tell you secretly

Hey, it's almost time now
The time for us children who are bad at physics
To go walking about in the air

In the evening, click-clack, train jerks into motion
In the dusk sky
We are children born bodiless

No one knows that I'm not here now
I'm waiting for you to tell you secretly

Hey, in the lonely plaza
We children who don't know arithmetic
Are spilling sand from our ears

In the kitchen, clink-clank, the train goes by
Into someone else's house
We are children born bodiless

In the evening, click-clack, the train is running
In the dusk sky
We are children born bodiless
We are children born bodiless