I reimagined Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) as a vision of Japan in the year 2525. The Great Wave becomes a bridge between two eras: above the water, a floating Japanese civilization has adapted to centuries of rising oceans, while beneath the surface, remnants of the old world have become an underwater archaeological landscape. I wanted to preserve Hokusai’s recognizable composition, rhythm and blue-and-cream visual language while imagining how humanity might adapt to a changing relationship with the ocean.