Malalo Ka Kai (Under the Sea)

In 1976, Walton had an exhibition of works inspired by Polynesian
culture in the then gallery space of Moana Nursery. Earlier that
year he and his wife Vivian had traveled to Hawaii, where Walton
snorkeled and discovered the underwater world—not so much
what exists there as how one sees there. The ambition of capturing
underwater vision cured him of the malaise about painting
brought on by the failure of his 1969 letterist show. Henceforth
he would develop, both in painting and in writing, his ideas about
the shortcomings of linear perspective as practiced since the
Renaissance for representing how we actually see.