2001fiberglass, styrofoam, fins, wood,rice paper, pencil, watercolour
surfboard height: 5’
In 2000 I received a BC Arts council grant to document surfing culture in Tofino, BC. I moved to Tofino for a year, working in surfing parking lots to draw and paint from life the mundane and particular activities that occur in the practice of surfing there. I began painting and drawing on rice paper. Surfboard graphics are embedded into boards with this medium, as the rice paper disappears when immersed in fibreglass resin, leaving only the image printed onto it.
I had seven surfboards made, laminating my drawing/watercolours in them in this manner. To use these functional boards, one would sit on them waiting for a wave, looking at an image does not depict the moment of triumph that usually represents surfing, but instead represents the banality of practice.