A woman embraces her child tightly and protectively against a stormy sea and sky as an immense wave towers over them. The expressions of the two figures are both anxious and excited. Within the wave, along with flotsam and jetsam is ample treasure and navigational instruments.
Could it be that one may find one’s way beautifully even in the face of that which is threatening and possibly destructive?
In 1889 Camille Claudel shared her admiration for Japanese printmaker Hokusai with her friend, composer Claude Debussy. In response to Hokusai’s print, “The Wave”, Claudel sculpted The Wave using mixed the materials of pale green onyx, marble and bronze. Debussy, also impressed by Hokusai, wrote his famous “La Mer”.
Like Claudel's sculpture, my Wave also uses mixed media, in this case acrylic paint on paper, with the addition of macaw feathers, pearls, glass beads, paua shell fragments and mica. In the end the Wave resembles a huge bird’s wing that also contains the word “Hope” at its base.
About 40.5 X 48 cm. (16 X 19”)
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