What is a painting? How has the sea been represented in art and history?

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Framed by an old post worn-down by wind & water, wiring stripped of its plastic coat reveals copper (mined from the earth) for a ‘net’ to catch broken glass coloured green, to recall crashing ocean waves of wide open seas that birds, ships, and even plants have voyaged across.

 

Simply, it asks you to look & curiously question the idea of art, and the history of seeing/not seeing things: places, people, and the environment. Houtman named the Abrolhos (eyes open 1619), Mondrian painted Ocean and Pier as abstract forms of vertical & horizontal lines (1914-15). Debussy created sea music calling it La Mer (1903-05) with Hokusai’s (c.1830s) Japanese woodblock print motif of a wave as a cover-image.

 

Yamaji too have words, art & stories of the ocean: Balayi! Look/watch out!