In *Wave*, Marilyn Minter employs her signature hyper-realistic style to render a close-up, sensory fragment of water in enamel on metal. The glossy, reflective surface of the metal panel enhances the liquid luminosity of the image, blurring the boundary between the depicted water and the physical material itself. The work exemplifies Minter's fascination with surfaces and sensation, transforming an ordinary natural element into something simultaneously seductive and disorienting.