Maja

Maja Hajuk

Words by Alex Bec, Thursday 07 May 2009

A mammoth body of work from Brooklynite Maja Hajuk. Although there is so much on her site to traul through, nothing quite caught my eye as much as the pictured mural ‘Crystal Lite’.

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