Ways of seeing — Art and The Self

George Bothamley
2 min readAug 25, 2021

Hokusai’s great wave is not just a depiction of the raging sea with Mount Fuji in the background.

In fact, one of the main reasons why a picture like this becomes so iconic, is because it allows for a multitude of interpretations, if we know how to see.

For example, when we look a little longer here, we could read this painting symbolically — with the towering great wave…

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