The Great Wave

Chicago-wide public installation

Poster/greeting card/coffee mug reproductions of the print The Great Wave were distributed to every

laundrette in Chicago

2003

Considering the idea that churning washing machines in a launderette could be an urban substitute for the ocean. This artwork was my attempt to place commercial reproductions of ‘The Great Wave’ by Hokusai into all launderettes in Chicago (there are 268). I either placed a large poster on the wall, a print on the notice board, a cup beside the coffee machine; or I mailed them a greetings card version of the image. Inside these cards I wrote ‘I saw this and thought of you,’ and signed my name.