Great Wave

The opportunity to try NIK software presented itself and curiosity got the best of me. An enthusiastic collector of my work was unimpressed with a series of crashing water photos that I took in Maui. I had been so energized by the experience that I was disappointed by his lack of enthusiasm. I knew I had something but it might need to be recreated…so this became my first digitally created image. When Great Wave, crashed onto the computer screen I knew that I was onto something but had to digest what I did. I had just returned from Giverny, where Monet’s Garden and his Japanese wood-block print collection that included Hokusai’s Great Wave drenched my senses. When I turned this color photograph into a black and white print, it looked more like an Asian brush painting or lithograph than a photographic image. Great Wave flowed into the exhibition, Holly Meets Hokusai. See Water Music portfolio for more images in this series. Creating this work was such a shock that it took me days to recover and comprehend the process. I began writing to help me understand what I stumbled upon…and have been writing ever since.

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