Major Kusanagi

“Major Kusanagi”
8″x10″ Oil on panel

8×10, hanging wire added to the back, ready for hanging display.
Oil Paint on cradled wood panel, and is sealed with Gamvar varnish.

Major Motoko Kusanagi is the main protagonist in Masamune Shirow’s anime and manga series “Ghost In The Shell”. She is a cyborg employed as the squad leader of Public Security Section 9, a fictional division of the real Japanese National Public Safety Commission. Since she has a full cybernetic body, she is not certain her ghost – her soul – retains any humanity. In fact, she speculates on the possibility that she’s entirely synthetic, with artificially generated memories designed to fool her into thinking she was once human.