Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techo, featuring artist Mariko Mori on the cover, published just before the turn of the century. With an extensive feature on Mori written in Japanese inside, the spreads feature images of the artist’s futuristic self-portraits that explore themes of spirituality, sci-fi, technology and the juxtaposition of Eastern mythology with Western culture. Mori worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s, and this influence can be felt in her early works, where she transforms herself into an exotic, alien creature against the backdrops of wind farms, rocky canyons and underground caves.