WISH YOU WERE HERE, HOKUSAI

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Commissioned by

The British Standards Institute,
Chiswick, London. UK 1994

   
The space allocated was a stairwell on the first floor leadingfrom the restaurant area to the ground floor. It is possible to look into the space from three sides of the stairwell.
The building had the feel of an ocean going liner. With this in mind the idea of the piece evolved as a wave formation, which would tumble into the space.
 

The Wave is a woodcut print made by a Japanese printmaker Hokusai that is a popular reproduction.
I am influenced by simplicity and movement in these Japanese prints and an interpretation of it was appropriate       for the space.
Size/Materials: A 6.00 metre length of silk organza, painted with procion dyes, suspended on clear perspex            tubes 1.20 metres wide.


       Art Consultants: Dixson Russell Art Management
 
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