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The opportunity to try NIK software presented itself…and my first digitally created image, Great Wave, crashed onto the computer screen. 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…
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All images in this portfolio, Water Music, and exhibition, Holly Meets Hokusai, stem from original digital files captured in the Ke’anae Peninsula in Maui several years earlier
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These original digital files sat dormant until re-discovery and re-creation gushed and flowed forth.
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Just as water crashed onto the lava rock shoreline, my creative discovery led to a creative explosion.
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The camera is my paintbrush and the viewfinder is my canvas.
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I felt embodied by Jackson Pollock as I photographed the rhythm of the changing surf with its endless variety of drips and sprays.
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The experience was physical and kinetic…and spiritual.
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In a chariot driven by cyber-horses, I was taking the ride of my life…to yet to be discovered destinations!
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Using my remote control and changing camera settings, I captured sprays, drips and surging rushes of water that tirelessly filled my viewfinder.
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The splashing waters danced rhythmically and endlessly creating a continuous flow of new patterns.
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Earlier art training in woodcuts and lithography bubbled to the surface. Some images looked like copper-plate etchings…and some like Asian brush-paintings…my creativity was flowing…
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Inspired by Monet and embodied by Jackson Pollack, I am part of the creative continuum of art.
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After traveling the globe for decades I have traveled into cyber-space. With NIK software as my trusty compass, I have re-created reality.
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Hokusai had his 100 views of Edo and I have my 100 plus views of the Ke’anae Peninsula.
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Hokusai was a teacher in his earlier life…and so was I.
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Hokusai wanted to live to be 140 to become a master of his art…and so do I.
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Hokusai’s Great Wave brought him fame and recognition. Whether my Great Wave will do the same remains to be seen…but I am definitely riding an exhilarating wave of creativity and discovery!
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I can make the powerful surge of water cloak the rugged shore line with a tender caress
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The camera is my conduit to how I choose to see the world and how I shall respond to it. Here the crashing water is sharp like visual staccato…music to my eyes whereas the previous image # 5057 is a visual musical slurring.
