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Playful, intricate Japanese leaf art – in pictures – Art and design


Each day, artist Lito draws an image on to a leaf before cutting it out and posting a photograph to social media

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. The combination of playful Studio Ghibli-esque imagination and exhaustive attention to detail is central to the appeal.

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