The Great Wave is the eighth artwork in the Coups de Temps Collection by Darryl Rogers.

Shot on Tasmania’s rugged and unrelenting west coast, Takayna, at 1000 frames per second, The Great Wave, is a riff on Hokusai’s iconic woodblocks print of the same name; a deified and drawing gripped by religious terror of a formidable sea that surrounded a country, much like lutruwita/Tasmania the island state Roger's lives on at the bottom of the world.

Hokusai’s work shows the wave's angry ascent to the sky, the deep forms of its interior and the tearing of its crest that scatters in a shower of droplets.

This time-based work then goes further, somewhere between realism and digital abstraction and back again. My work interrogates ideas of the sea as a metaphor for an endless ocean of time, with time as a boundary that constrains the spirit.

In The Great Wave metaphysics and deep time collide and fragment, reflecting notions of the transcendent and non-materiality of existence.