I don't think that slapping together prices of other people's art without even referencing them is anything you can realistically call your own. Unoriginal.

I love the use of Hokusai's waves underneath. One of my favorite paintings...or is that a woodblock? I think it might be a woodblock but either way I've always loved it.

That’s totally fair. I should have referenced Hokusai as that was the only artist whose name I had. Everything else was random clippings I found.

If I remember correctly this was woodblock. I love the chaos and serenity it brings.

I love the little wave peaks like fingertips, or like a fractal pattern, each wave has several tiny waves, each made of several tinier waves. It evokes the idea of Indra's Web, or Indra's Net, an infinite net or spiderweb covered in dew, where every droplet contains in it the reflection of every other droplet, an expression of pratityasamutpada, the dependent origination of all things.

That's literally what a collage is. If you don't like that genre of art, fine; but you're acting as if the artist is engaging in plagiarism by doing a well established genre of art.

I absolutely love this. Collages are an amazing way to remix images, and are completely valid as a form of art.

Also, it's looks anazing!

Damn, I love that view. I dont think I’ll ever look at it the same.

I also enjoy how the fishermen are looking at the waves below, yet the great wave above will likely be their demise.

Thank you, that means so much.

I cannot draw to save my life. So it’s the only way I can create something new and have fun.

Oh wow I never really noticed that. That's definitely an apt metaphor for all people of all times. The universe loves to misdirect us with one hand while it slaps us with the other.

I get it. Don't let people trying to gatekeep what they consider "legitimate" art get to you - I literally stopped scrolling to look closer at it as it spoke to me in a beautiful way. <3

Aww, I really appreciate that.

I’m glad you enjoy it. And thanks again for this kind words.

Beautiful and stunning. Mashup is an artfotrm.

This artwork is so creative and cool.😍

Fun Fact: The reason that piece was so popular (Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa) in Japan was because it was one of the first paintings/prints to use a deep blue color. If you look at prints from the previous centuries and even before the Sengoku Era, you never see blues or purples. If you do, they are usually faded or very light. Being a hermetic, isolationist country for centuries, they never had the materials to create blue dye. In the 1800’s they had limited trade with Europe and were able to acquire the synthetic “Prussian Blue” dye from Holland.

Hokusai used it profusely in his 36 Views of Mount Fuji series while using avant-garde perspective techniques that were all the rage in Europe. The striking, beautiful color of that particular print is what ultimately made it a world famous artwork. Im pretty sure I read somewhere that it’s either the most duplicated print in the world. or definitely close.

Oh that's interesting. So that would have been around the Edo period, 1800s, when they opened Japan up a bit to foreign trade? It's interesting that Japan hadn't figured out a blue dye of their own. Do you know what is used to make Prussian blue that Japan didn't have, or hadn't figured out how to make?

I agree with your sentiment believe me but they did title it as a collage and Im really digging it. None the less I do see where you're coming from.

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Thank you!

Thank you!