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Wrap around book cover created for Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s collection of short stories, The Beautiful and the Grotesque, published by W.W. Norton in 2010.
Awards and recognitions: gold medal, Society of Illustrators 52, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 51 (2010)