Jonathan Price's Blog, page 4
August 18, 2023
Visitation on the Rio Grande
July 1, 2023Observations
Jonathan:
Allow the miracleTo walk with you,In you, beyond any you.
Revelation is not a book,Light has its own sound,Clanging its tiny particlesLike bubbles on the wave--Insight appears withoutForce, plan, or calculus.
The Professor:
In about the year 1400, the word suspense came into English from the French suspens, itself a derivation from the Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere, "to hang up, interrupt,” and thus to suspenders, those elastic bands that “hold up” pants.
But of course the word has been applied in a more psychological sense to the feeling of anticipation--not always pleasant to be sure, and that is its thrill, the ambiguous sense of something impending. The enjoyment of poetry, Coleridge said, required “the willing suspension of disbelief.”
And such associations cluster here, as this sighting of the “visitation” seems to hang in space, thin as a single plane transparent, lighter than air, suspended, that is to say interrupting our normal view of the world and leaving us in a state of suspense--Danger? Beauty?--a breathless shock, a gap in time. We are left hanging…
Crazy Jane
O what a terrible beauty is born, tra la, these “gaps in time,” as my brother the Professor says, this space where I am lighter than air, tra la. The gods are playing with us and we are to be amused. No threat. Could any irrationality be more gentle than these apparitions? I think not…encore I say…where next will the world be interrupted? In this gap, there is a new song to sing, Tra la. Suspend me, darling, my heart beats faster.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
About Jonathan
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MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
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About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
August 11, 2023
Visitation--Arriving at Dawn
Observations
Jonathan:
The black circle, boiling with ghosts,Appears on the trail, spins,Then disappears--so sudden that My inner eye still seeks its size,Position, scale, and my mind, numbed,Makes nothing out of it, no pointOr idea, just its after glow.
The Professor:
The word “cipher” comes from the Arabic word for “zero,” the invention of which concept transformed arithmetic from measurement into mathematics. Suddenly there was a complex cosmos that could be interpreted in new ways.
That interpretation began as a way of understanding what “zero” allowed us to formulate (make formulas about) the world. The word “decipher” implies that the complex cosmos is a puzzle that must be worked out, a code that must be decoded, a cryptogram that must be solved.
Call these apparitional images what you will (and the emerging meme is now “visitations”---a word which has its own loaded implications) these visual phenomena do to our minds now what the concept “zero” once did to the minds that first encountered it. What does it mean that there is something that can be named as nothing?
I am not sure we will ever reduce these “visitations” to a single meaning: but they can no more be ignored than “zero.” We are now all puzzlers, caught in a penumbra of wonder.
Crazy Jane
I have stopped asking people, “Did you see it?” It is now clear to me, from FB posts and blurry phots of Instagram, that these….things…are being seen. Of course, the skeptics are saying it’s all AI and Photoshop, and some are claiming there is a mass hysteria seeing spectres where there are none, but I have lived with phantasms that presage and haunt, I feel strangely at home in a world in which the incomprehensible is finally becoming a common experience. It may be that we must all go mad before we realize the madness of what has passed for sanity. Bring it on, I say. Let’s recognize the breakdown, enter it. We have no defense against it.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
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About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
August 8, 2023
Visitation in the Haze
June 30, 2023Observations
Jonathan:
Suddenly, we saw it come out of the haze, so much brighter, sharper, more distinct than the mountains, or the grass on the lawn. No time to settle into an Adirondack chair, or hide our eyes from the glare of the sun. Where was this thing headed? Who was swirling in it? Why? We had barely formed the questions when, with a spin, it left.
The Professor:
Recently I have been working with Naval Intelligence, and though I am not at liberty to reveal much of our work, we do note that these anomalies have two extremely peculiar characteristics. First of all, these strange objects have a very brief duration. They do not linger, and so often their appearance evokes a “Did you see that?” exclamation for which the common answer has been “No. What?” And perhaps in some way linked to this first fact is a gathering body of testimony that those who have seen one of these disks have felt it held a message for them--they call these phenomena “apparitions”-- while those who have only seen a photograph-and these are rare given how fleeting the appearances are--pass this off as a Photoshop hoax.
Crazy Jane
I see them every day, and believe me I don’t know anyone else who does. And not many who have seen one at all. The other day I saw this one.
I was panhandling in the street in front of this Lake Placid resort and a man had just dropped some coin in my had, and we both saw it. For me, it’s become unremarkable, and when he asked me if I had seen “that,” I said I had. At the same moment his phone rang; he answered it, said “You’ve got to be kidding!” closed the phone, and stared at me”That was my broker. He says this stock he had me put a ton of money into, well, it turns out it's a Ponzi scheme. I just lost everything I put into it.”
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
To explore the sequence of Visitations:
Visitation on a Clear Day
Visitation in the Smoke
Visitation in the Haze
Visitation Arriving at Dawn
Visitation on the Rio Grande
Visitation on a Maine Summer Day
Visitation in Brooklyn
Visitation in Midtown
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Instagram:
Pinterest:
Facebook:
Linked In:
Amazon Author Page:
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
Visitation 8
June 30, 2023Observations
Jonathan:
Suddenly, we saw it come out of the haze, so much brighter, sharper, more distinct than the mountains, or the grass on the lawn. No time to settle into an Adirondack chair, or hide our eyes from the glare of the sun. Where was this thing headed? Who was swirling in it? Why? We had barely formed the questions when, with a spin, it left.
The Professor:
Recently I have been working with Naval Intelligence, and though I am not at liberty to reveal much of our work, we do note that these anomalies have two extremely peculiar characteristics. First of all, these strange objects have a very brief duration. They do not linger, and so often their appearance evokes a “Did you see that?” exclamation for which the common answer has been “No. What?” And perhaps in some way linked to this first fact is a gathering body of testimony that those who have seen one of these disks have felt it held a message for them--they call these phenomena “apparitions”-- while those who have only seen a photograph-and these are rare given how fleeting the appearances are--pass this off as a Photoshop hoax.
Crazy Jane
I see them every day, and believe me I don’t know anyone else who does. And not many who have seen one at all. The other day I saw this one.
I was panhandling in the street in front of this Lake Placid resort and a man had just dropped some coin in my had, and we both saw it. For me, it’s become unremarkable, and when he asked me if I had seen “that,” I said I had. At the same moment his phone rang; he answered it, said “You’ve got to be kidding!” closed the phone, and stared at me”That was my broker. He says this stock he had me put a ton of money into, well, it turns out it's a Ponzi scheme. I just lost everything I put into it.”
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Instagram:
Pinterest:
Facebook:
Linked In:
Amazon Author Page:
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
August 1, 2023
Visitation in the Smoke
Jonathan:
It came over the mountain,piercing the smoke, spinningcloser, the spirits openingsome wormhole in the blue haze.
The Professor:
What are these images to be called, these disks, these UFO’s. They are a kind of mandala, but they lack the symmetries of those ancient forms that symbolize cosmic unity. These, on the other hand, are dynamic, phantasmic, and often bio-morphic. I should like to call these images “randalas” for they seem to me to honor the random and turbulent nature of our reality. Randalas: perhaps we could not have a more fitting icon for the chaotic precarity of our present reality.
Crazy Jane
I keep asking people, did you see it, that one over the fence, this one floating ominous and clear in the smoke haze from the forest fires that hazed our hills? Did you feel the surprise and the fear and then the strange hope as if we were being given a sign, visited by some eye in the sky that demands we change our story? How much easier it is to take this in when you are already slightly mad. They make me happy and I feel less alone. Did you see it? Tell me.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
To explore the sequence of Visitations:
Visitation on a Clear Day
Visitation in the Smoke
Visitation in the Haze
Visitation Arriving at Dawn
Visitation on the Rio Grande
Visitation on a Maine Summer Day
Visitation in Brooklyn
Visitation in Midtown
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Instagram:
Pinterest:
Facebook:
Linked In:
Amazon Author Page:
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
Visitation 6
Jonathan:
It came over the mountain,piercing the smoke, spinningcloser, the spirits openingsome wormhole in the blue haze.
The Professor:
What are these images to be called, these disks, these UFO’s. They are a kind of mandala, but they lack the symmetries of those ancient forms that symbolize cosmic unity. These, on the other hand, are dynamic, phantasmic, and often bio-morphic. I should like to call these images “randalas” for they seem to me to honor the random and turbulent nature of our reality. Randalas: perhaps we could not have a more fitting icon for the chaotic precarity of our present reality.
Crazy Jane
I keep asking people, did you see it, that one over the fence, this one floating ominous and clear in the smoke haze from the forest fires that hazed our hills? Did you feel the surprise and the fear and then the strange hope as if we were being given a sign, visited by some eye in the sky that demands we change our story? How much easier it is to take this in when you are already slightly mad. They make me happy and I feel less alone. Did you see it? Tell me.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Instagram:
Pinterest:
Facebook:
Linked In:
Amazon Author Page:
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
July 30, 2023
Visitation on a Clear Day
June 29, 2023Observations
Jonathan:
On a clear day, in full sun, the visitor appeared right above the fence around the swamp. What, or who, or why? No hum before, no smoke left behind, just that moment.
The Professor:
Anomaly:
1570s, "unevenness;" 1660s, "deviation from the common rule," from Latin anomalia, from Greek anomalia "inequality," abstract noun from anomalos "uneven, irregular," from an- "not" (see an- (1)) + homalos "even," from homos "same" (from PIE root *sem- (1) "one; as one, together with"). From 1722 as "something abnormal or irregular."
Crazy Jane
Scared the shit out of me when I thought I had no more
shit to scare what with the fires, the drought, the deaths.
Then this disk suspended in the blue. Suddenly I knew
nothing could be the same again. Maybe just what we
need, a riddle so far beyond us that we will finally be put
in our place. For the clouds never looked more lovely, nor
the spiked palings more menacing.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
To explore the sequence of Visitations:
Visitation on a Clear Day
Visitation in the Smoke
Visitation in the Haze
Visitation Arriving at Dawn
Visitation on the Rio Grande
Visitation on a Maine Summer Day
Visitation in Brooklyn
Visitation in Midtown
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathanreeveprice/?hl=en
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MuseumZero-162351280446029/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jonathanprice
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
Visitation 2
June 29, 2023Observations
Jonathan:
On a clear day, in full sun, the visitor appeared right above the fence around the swamp. What, or who, or why? No hum before, no smoke left behind, just that moment.
The Professor:
Anomaly:
1570s, "unevenness;" 1660s, "deviation from the common rule," from Latin anomalia, from Greek anomalia "inequality," abstract noun from anomalos "uneven, irregular," from an- "not" (see an- (1)) + homalos "even," from homos "same" (from PIE root *sem- (1) "one; as one, together with"). From 1722 as "something abnormal or irregular."
Crazy Jane
Scared the shit out of me when I thought I had no more
shit to scare what with the fires, the drought, the deaths.
Then this disk suspended in the blue. Suddenly I knew
nothing could be the same again. Maybe just what we
need, a riddle so far beyond us that we will finally be put
in our place. For the clouds never looked more lovely, nor
the spiked palings more menacing.
--Jonathan Reeve Price and Peter Asher Pitzele
About Jonathan
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanreeveprice
MuseumZero site: www.museumzero.art
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathanreeveprice/?hl=en
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MuseumZero-162351280446029/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jonathanprice
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41600924.Jonathan_Price
About Peter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter.pitzele/
Scripture Windows: Toward a Practice of Bibliodrama, with Susan Pitzele
Our Fathers' Wells: A Personal Encounter With the Myths of Genesis
May 30, 2023
00Viewing Hokusai--About
In this project, I make digital images that re-interpret each print in Hokusai's series, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, plus the extras he added when customers asked for more. I take apart and remix each original, offering my own visual and textual exploration of questions such as:
What was Hokusai getting at? How was he working? How did this practice align with his spiritual growth?Here's a table of contents. Please skim through these thumbnails to spot a picture you might want to explore, then tap on through to see that print, and my poem about that picture--plus, as a bonus, the digital image I came up with in homage to Hokusai's original.
Or get the complete set of my remixes in the book, Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji.
1 View through Waves off the Coast of Kanagawa
2 Morning after Snow in Koishikawa
4 Sekiya Village on the Sumida River
5 View from Senju in Musashi Province
7 Lake Suwa in Shinano
8 Cushion Pine at Aoyama
9 At Mishima Pass in Kai
10 Ushibori in Hitachi
11 Tama River in Musashi
12 Sunset across the Ryōgoku Bridge from Sumida
13 Sea Lane off Kazusa
14 Off Tago Beach in Ejiri on the Tokaido
15 Tsukada-jima in Musashi Province
16 Bay of Noboto
17 Fujimigahara in Owari
18 Yoshida on the Tōkaidō Highway
19 Sazai Hall, Temple of the 500 Arhats
20 Watermill at Onden
21 In the Mountains of Tōtōmi
22 Tatekawa in Honjo
23 Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa
24 Mitsui Shop at Suruga-chō in Edo
25 Under the Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa
26 Nihonbashi
27 Crossing the Ōi River at Kanaya
28 Shichiri Beach in Sagami
29 New Fields at Ōno Shinden
30 Hills at Gotenyama above Shinagawa
31 The Lake at Hakone in Sagami
32 Misaka in Kai
33 Kajikazawa in Kai Province
34 Nakahara in Sagami
35 The Inume Pass in Kai Province
36 Shimo Meguro
37 Tea Fields at Katakura in Suruga
38 Sōshū Enoshima in Sagami
39 Surugadai in Edo
40 Senju in Musashi Province
41 The Fields of Umezawa in Sagami
42 A Fine, Breezy Day
43 Storm Below the Summit
44 Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province
45 The Other Side of Mt. Fuji, from Minobu River
46 Climbing Mt. Fuji
47:Viewing Hokusai--Afterword About Hokusai, Me, and MonetAbout the BookViewing Hokusai Viewing Mount FujiISBN-10: 0-9719954-7-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-9719954-7-576 pages, full colorThis book, a meditation on Hokusai, takes apart the prints in the series, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, zooming in digitally, assembling a 21st century interpretation of Hokusai's practice, as he celebrated the natural landscape of a nation coming up with a new idea of itself.
Each of my images starts with one of Hokusai’s views, disassembles it, and constructs a new picture out of the pieces as a visual critique, adding a few floating text chunks—brief observations, snippets of poetry, stray thoughts.
Within each of my pictures, a thumbnail of the original print lets you do a before-and-after comparison, gauging Hokusai’s wood-block print against my pixelated, sliced, and reassembled collage. I also insert a scattering of texts in each of my pictures, too, reflecting on the original image, and what it suggests about Hokusai's own drive for immortality, his exploitation of newly available pigments, his fondness for the interplay of text and image, and his love for the ordinary workers and travelers out in the countryside.
An Afterword discusses the path that I took, as an artist and poet, in homage to Hokusai. I see parallels between Hokusai’s art practice and the functions available in software such as Photoshop, tactics that I have adapted to our century—zooming, revising, layering, making depth hard to read, indulging in bright blocks of color. Hokusai created more than a thousand images combining poetry and imagery, and I point to those artworks as justification for my own mixing of language, line, and color in my responses.
In 19th century Japan, the number 36 might have reminded literate customers of the number of the immortals—the classical poets of Japan and China. But when Hokusai’s own series of 36 prints sold well, he added another 10 pictures. So my book offers a total of 46 digital images, followed by a critical essay describing Hokusai's practice, and his impact on me...and Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet. Holding this book in your hand may not make you live forever, but, who knows, it might bring you some of Hokusai’s spirit.
Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji
About Me
I'm Jonathan Reeve Price, an information architect, writer, and artist. Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonathanReevePrice
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jonathanprice
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Museum Zero: museumzero.art
April 12, 2023
01Viewing Hokusai--View Through Waves Off the Coast of Kanagawa
Hokusai, 神奈川沖浪裏, View Through Waves Off the Coast of KanagawaOld man rowing,
Crazy for painting,
Name changer,
Shape shifter,
Icon maker,
Worshipping a volcano
Like a wave
I zoom in, and withdraw,
Like an eye,
I pixelate,
I blur my borders,
And grow perspective.
As poet, though,
I make
Text strings in
Wave lengths,
Catastrophe frozen,
Fractal with foam,
Fear and pity held
Tight as the first cut in
The uncarved block.
Such an islander, he thinks like a fish–
He's swum under these breakers, out
Where you can't touch bottom, to push
Back up. Bang, the wave comes down,
In real seas. But here the death blow
Is suspended–studied–carved in wood.
--Jonathan Reeve Price
Two Interpretations of View Through Waves off the Coast of KanagawaHere's another take on the same image, starting from Hokusai's original, mixing text and images in 24"x24" aluminum panels, catalogued in my book, Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji.
Other images in this series:In this project, we take off from each picture in Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji, plus the extras he added when customers asked for more. We look at each original, then offer a visual and textual exploration of questions such as:
What was Hokusai getting at? How was he working? How did this practice align with his spiritual growth?Please skim down this set of thumbnails to spot a picture you might want to explore, then click through. Or get the complete set in the book, Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji.
1 View through Waves off the Coast of Kanagawa
2 Morning after Snow in Koishikawa
4 Sekiya Village on the Sumida River
5 View from Senju in Musashi Province
7 Lake Suwa in Shinano
8 Cushion Pine at Aoyama
9 At Mishima Pass in Kai
10 Ushibori in Hitachi
11 Tama River in Musashi
12 Sunset across the Ryōgoku Bridge from Sumida
13 Sea Lane off Kazusa
14 Off Tago Beach in Ejiri on the Tokaido
15 Tsukada-jima in Musashi Province
16 Bay of Noboto
17 Fujimigahara in Owari
18 Yoshida on the Tōkaidō Highway
19 Sazai Hall, Temple of the 500 Arhats
20 Watermill at Onden
21 In the Mountains of Tōtōmi
22 Tatekawa in Honjo
23 Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa
24 Mitsui Shop at Suruga-chō in Edo
25 Under the Mannen Bridge in Fukagawa
26 Nihonbashi
27 Crossing the Ōi River at Kanaya
28 Shichiri Beach in Sagami
29 New Fields at Ōno Shinden
30 Hills at Gotenyama above Shinagawa
31 The Lake at Hakone in Sagami
32 Misaka in Kai
33 Kajikazawa in Kai Province
34 Nakahara in Sagami
35 The Inume Pass in Kai Province
36 Shimo Meguro
37 Tea Fields at Katakura in Suruga
38 Sōshū Enoshima in Sagami
39 Surugadai in Edo
40 Senju in Musashi Province
41 The Fields of Umezawa in Sagami
42 A Fine, Breezy Day
43 Storm Below the Summit
44 Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province
45 The Other Side of Mt. Fuji, from Minobu River
46 Climbing Mt. Fuji
47:Viewing Hokusai--Afterword About Hokusai, Me, and MonetAbout the BookViewing Hokusai Viewing Mount FujiISBN-10: 0-9719954-7-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-9719954-7-576 pages, full colorThis book is a meditation on Hokusai, taking apart the prints in the series, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, zooming in digitally, assembling a 21st century interpretation of his practice, as he celebrates the natural landscape of a nation coming up with a new idea of itself.
Each image starts with one of Hokusai’s views, disassembles it, constructs a new picture out of the pieces, as a visual critique, and adds floating text chunks—brief observations, snippets of poetry, stray thoughts.
Thumbnails of the originals let you compare the before-and-after, gauging Hokusai’s wood-block print against the pixelated, sliced, and diced collage, and the scattered writings that reflect on his drive for immortality, his exploitation of newly available pigments, his fondness for the interplay of text and image, and his love for the ordinary workers and travelers out in the country.
An Afterword discusses the path that the artist and poet, Jonathan Reeve Price, took to this homage to Hokusai. He sees parallels between Hokusai’s art practice and the functions available in software such as Photoshop, tactics that he has adapted to our century—zooming, revising, layering, making depth hard to read, indulging in bright blocks of color. Hokusai created more than a thousand images combining poetry and imagery, and Price points to those artworks as justification for his own mixing of language, line, and color in his responses.
In 19th century Japan, the number 36 might have reminded literate customers of the number of the immortals—the classical poets of Japan and China. But when Hokusai’s series of 36 prints sold well, he added another 10 pictures. So this book offers a total of 46 digital images, followed by a critical essay, and an FAQ about the author’s background. Holding this book in your hand may not make you live forever, but, who knows, it might bring you some of Hokusai’s spirit.
Viewing Hokusai Viewing Mount Fuji
About Me
I'm Jonathan Reeve Price, an information architect, writer, and artist. Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonathanReevePrice
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jonathanprice
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonathanRPrice
Museum Zero: museumzero.art
