Mie once told me a story about when she moved to Japan at age 9, an american kid who could only speak English, and was thrust into a Japanese elementary school. She had a hard time being accepted there and it changed her from being a gregarious young girl to someone who was shy and lacked self-confidence. The students there found her so strange and foreign that they would crowd around the windows of her classroom to get a peek of her.
For this week's piece I used three different images, ran them through vector magic and combined them in Illustrator then added ink and watercolor.
Images used (creative commons licensed):