40-year-old Japanese artist Daisuke Skagami from Toyko, who goes by the name of EndCape, creates astonishing pictures on bananas by artfully bruising them with a single pin pushed into the peel.

It’s a past-time known as banana tattooing, but technique-wise is similar to pointillism. This is where pictures are created using tiny dots of pure colour.

Cape’s creations take around five hours to make – sometimes longer – and include Mount Rushmore National Memorial, the Mona Lisa and Virgin boss Richard Branson.
He’s also created jigsaw patterns, a banana ‘zip’, and a the face of Japanese actor Sei Hiraizumi.
Each banana lasts up to two days, at which point the artist eats his creations, but EndCape is now looking for ways to preserve his work.

His designs have been featured on Japanese TV and in art galleries in Toyko.