📣Excited to announce, my relief carving, “The Great Wave Off Nakamoto” is joining the online Art gallery as part of Bitcoin Asia! 🌊
I carved this relief to capture the steadfast calm I feel as a Bitcoiner, no matter how turbulent the fiat storm.
Inspired by Hokusai’s iconic "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," this piece is my attempt to bring that famous wave to life through the rugged beauty of reclaimed slate. This particular stone is a joy to work with and has a beautiful blue-grey color.
Over the course of three months and using hammer and chisel, I shaped the stone’s surface to echo the layered textures of traditional woodblock printing, where each carved area—rough, smooth, or rippling—creates distinct shades in the slate.
These textures evoke a spectrum of colors that shift with the light, much like the vibrant energy of Hokusai’s original print.
For the guiding light of the Bitcoin moon, I used 24k gold leaf. The Bitcoin symbol is always present there, but it remains subtle and not easily seen from a distance.
Gold leaf also decorates the sail of the Ark as it rides the waves, in a nod to Knut Svanholm's well known Bitcoin meme, "Everything divided by 21 million." Like Bitcoin, this carving is my expression of hope and self-determination in the turbulent sea of fiat-derived instability that surrounds us.
This work is offered as a fixed price sale. It represents a great deal of time and effort on my part, and for the right collector, it is a statement piece I hope will inspire many great Bitcoin conversations for years to come.
See the listing here:
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@Scarce.City @The Bitcoin Conference
