Same Ocean

Three framed Same Ocean pieces on a living room wall above a walnut sideboard - a blossom pagoda, the lighthouse at night, and a red maple house on a clifftop

I am a Hawaiian that lives in Kuwait. My family is from Oahu, I was raised in Texas, and the ocean is the part of Hawaiʻi I carry with me.

I could spend days at the beach. Not doing much — just being near it. That is what I was trying to get onto a screen.

The other half is Japanese animation. I grew up watching it and it became a love of mine. Same Ocean is those two put together.

The name is the plain truth of it. The water off Hawaiʻi and the water off Japan is the same water. One ocean, two places I love.

Sixteen pieces, all the same coast.

A pagoda with its windows lit. A wooden house among the pines. A lookout over the water. A tent on a cliff edge with a fire going. A lighthouse turning its beam across a dark bay.

Some have the cherry blossom, some have the red maple, so the set runs spring through autumn. Three of them are at night.

There are no people in any of them. Every one is a place somebody could be, and the light is already on. It leaves the seat open.

E mau ka maluhia, ka mālie, a me ka nani o ka moana e hoʻohui ana iā Kepanī a me Hawaiʻi.
E ʻike ʻoukou i ka hauʻoli o ka moana i ko ʻoukou mau ola.
Mai iaʻu iā ʻoukou me ke aloha.

May the peace, the calm, and the beauty of the ocean that connects Japan and Hawaiʻi remain.
May you know the joy of the ocean in your lives.
From me to you, with love.

One in the middle of the day and one at night, so you can see both sides of this collection.

Pagoda under cherry blossom on a rock with pines below, tall white clouds over blue water
The middle of the day.
Night camp on a cliff edge, campfire and lantern lit tent under a red maple and a field of stars
And at night.

I am a digital artist that is inspired and directs his AI Assistant. I work with AI to create my vision and I am the Hawaiian that brings the inspiration to the creation.

I will keep building collections out of my own life and telling you where each one came from. I would love to hear what you are working on, My Art ʻOhana…

Kaulukukui
From Dreams On Kanvas with love… Aloha Nui Loa


Every one of the sixteen also comes as a phone wallpaper, so the same coast is on both screens. The full collection is here.


Ocean art for your Samsung Frame TV and phone

If you want this one on your screens, here is the short version.

What is in it. 16 pieces, each made twice, 32 files: a pagoda under cherry blossom, a lighthouse at night, a tent on a cliff edge, a wooden house among the pines, all on one imagined coast. Every piece is 3840 × 2160 (4K), PNG, 16:9, signed, with a certificate. 4 KD, paid once, and the download is in your email the moment you pay.

What it fits. The Samsung Frame TV in Art Mode and any 4K TV (LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Google TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku), Mac, Windows, iPad and Android tablets. Same Ocean is also the one collection made for your phone, 1440 × 3200, each piece drawn again rather than cropped.

Putting it on the Frame. Copy the pieces to a USB stick, plug it into the TV, press Power twice for Art Mode, then My Collection, your USB, pick the pieces, Save Selected. Every other TV, and the SmartThings way, is on the Samsung Frame TV page.

Get it. Same Ocean, 16 pieces, each made twice, 32 files, 4 KD. The rest of Hawaiʻi is on the Hawaiian art page. If this one is for you, Dreamy Hawaii is the one I would put next to it.