‘The Great Wave Off Kanagawa’ (1833) is perhaps one of the most famous woodblock prints, by Japanese artist Hokusai. It’s the first in Hokusai’s 36 prints that depict Mount Fuji. By combining this iconic image with the US Dollar, this private art commission highlights the connection between Hokusai’s print, and our maritime sense of money: economic waves, liquidity, sunk costs, slush fund…
Hokusai’s original print is translated into lithograph and flexography – both processes used in banknote production – and over-printed on an existing sheet of US Dollars.