5 years ago I started a now completely stalled project (fingers crossed I can figure out how to restart soon) to draw all of Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art. Why? I started this project for no other reason than I love to get into the ‘flow state’ from this kind of creative endeavour, and obviously I love to use old Macintosh computers. It feels very satisfying to get each pixel to fall into place, capturing both the original vision of Hokusai and the aesthetic that Susan Kare mastered early on with ‘the Japanese lady’ . Kare’s picture of course starred on the cover of every box of MacPaint and you can still buy beautiful prints of it today, directly from her. Another challenging aspect of this project is to make sure the images are the original Macintosh screen resolution of 512 x 342 pixels. Why do I do this to myself?! Well, it just felt ‘right’ and I guess I’m a glutton for punishment when I want to make things feel authentic. How?…