"The Giant Wave"
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$15,000.00
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83 inch x 48 inch -- 2.11 meter x 1.22 meter
Original work, acrylic on canvas
This piece signifies the immensity of emotion and how its power can either envelop one like a seismic sea swell or propel that same person on the ride of a lifetime.
The painting is reminiscent of the great wave pictured by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai who famously created the woodblock print of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.”
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The process to finish this painting was unusual. The underpainting had been laying on the floor for days and I did not know how to resolve it. Until one day, I did an exercise to get rid of all the blockages inside of me. I pushed all that was on my mind and holding me back down into the earth (with my mind) and I let it burn inside the earth into a big fireball. Then I asked if from that deep point inside the earth, it could give me the material needed to finish this painting and have my body and soul filled up with it - whatever it was - so that I would be able to continue to paint and finish this work. To my great surprise the answer came and I felt completely filled up with... CRYSTAL! Unbelievably, revealed to me was the color of transparency and refracted glass. I started painting the sun rays in the ocean water, the foam of the wave and the pink-colored evening sunset in the background fully embracing the color of a crystal-clear rainbow.