Edition of 2 of 12

Pigment Ink on sustainable bamboo Awagami washi paper

118 x 84 cm (46.46 x 33.07 in)

This was one of the first flowing designs I made, based on space filling curves, back in 2004, but I never released it as a print.

It came about because I noticed the fractal shape of the curve looked a lot like the treatment of the waves in Hokusai’s famous woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa, part of his classic 36 Views of Mount Fuji series.

In the design, there is “foam” and “water” and I use a graphic style directly quoted from Hokusai, with the two tone water, the flying foam, and the navy blue outlines. The water and the foam form dragon-like shapes that swirl around each other but never intersect - all foam is connected and all water is connected.

This is a part of the “Full House” series, a collection of special works from my research that don’t fit into the exhibition series but are nonetheless very interesting. They are very large, taking up almost the full sheet. They are signed together with a custom hand applied seal in the bottom right corner of the artwork, so they can be framed with a mount up to the image boundary, if desired, as the signature doesn’t extend into the border.