Hokusai (July)

Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘Big Wave’ and ‘Red Fuji’ shine behind frames in the Templestowe master bedroom. The hanging world has all the best fittings. He responded to the material at hand. At one window a magnolia begins breaking its bark into flower, some as early as July. Pink and green colours combine. The weather stays on that side of the glass. At the other window: a winter tennis court, a far wall, a ladder, a hillside, potential rain. Over warmed sheets a couple are fully involved in their own beauty, their bodies enacting yin and yang, undressing, unresisting. Hokusai is immaterial.