Wall creates his works using actors and actresses on location, as in a movie production, and uses a computer to construct elaborate scenes. Just as painters of past ages composed and depicted historic scenes, landscapes and fashions, Wall portrays our present age fully applying his knowledge of art history and photography. In 1993, for instance, influenced by the Japanese woodblock artist, Katsushika Hokusai, he produced "A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)," a portrait of modern times modeled after "Sunshu Ejiri," one of "The 36 Views of Mt. Fuji." The work, which seems to have frozen a scene of a film or a phase of an everyday episode, stimulates our imagination to invent our own story.

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