Eddie Vedder at the Surf Ranch, Lemoore 2023. Edition of 95 prints
Eddie Vedder at the Surf Ranch, Lemoore 2023
Edition of 95 prints available at AdlerSmithGallery.com
Proceeds from the sales of these prints will support Vitalogy Foundation’s efforts for victims of the LA fires including World Central Kitchen
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Every surfer draws waves. We drew them in English, History, and Biology class when thinking about what was important to us. And everyone has their own unique style of illustrating on a notebook page the vision that is in their head. In the early nineties, I wanted to test this theory and started asking all my surf friends to draw “their” waves in my composition book. Rob Machado’s was smooth and liquid, perfectly groovy. An exact representation of what you would expect from his pure-stoke approach. Ross Williams, Taylor Knox, Kalani Robb, etc., all contributed, turning a college-ruled notebook into a gallery of the masters. I remember Kelly going off into a corner and getting really focused on it. I didn’t see his interpretation until the next day. It was not what I was expecting.
It was dark. Made of pencil stabs and dashes. Jagged lines and sharp edges. And where all the angular lines would meet up and intersect, it gave off a sense of something heavy and foreboding. There was nothing inviting or groovy about this one at all. I asked him about it. He noted the dark spots on the wave. These are the power points of the wave. Where many of us see a swell, a peak, and a curl, his brain was almost digitizing it into angles and lines, and the concentration of the lines were where the energy of the wave was gathered. An offering he would exploit. If this was common practice among the surf gods of yore, or his other peers, it was certainly not something I had been presented that way before. Elucidated perfectly with the detailed sketch of dark matter. (I couldn’t locate the original image, but I’ve attempted a mini-version of it for reference.) But yeah, he sees things different. Slightly different dimension. Freakish. - excerpt from the Forward by Eddie Vedder for Todd Glaser’s “A Life of Waves”
Edition of 95 prints available at AdlerSmithGallery.com
Proceeds from the sales of these prints will support Vitalogy Foundation’s efforts for victims of the LA fires including World Central Kitchen
…………..
Every surfer draws waves. We drew them in English, History, and Biology class when thinking about what was important to us. And everyone has their own unique style of illustrating on a notebook page the vision that is in their head. In the early nineties, I wanted to test this theory and started asking all my surf friends to draw “their” waves in my composition book. Rob Machado’s was smooth and liquid, perfectly groovy. An exact representation of what you would expect from his pure-stoke approach. Ross Williams, Taylor Knox, Kalani Robb, etc., all contributed, turning a college-ruled notebook into a gallery of the masters. I remember Kelly going off into a corner and getting really focused on it. I didn’t see his interpretation until the next day. It was not what I was expecting.
It was dark. Made of pencil stabs and dashes. Jagged lines and sharp edges. And where all the angular lines would meet up and intersect, it gave off a sense of something heavy and foreboding. There was nothing inviting or groovy about this one at all. I asked him about it. He noted the dark spots on the wave. These are the power points of the wave. Where many of us see a swell, a peak, and a curl, his brain was almost digitizing it into angles and lines, and the concentration of the lines were where the energy of the wave was gathered. An offering he would exploit. If this was common practice among the surf gods of yore, or his other peers, it was certainly not something I had been presented that way before. Elucidated perfectly with the detailed sketch of dark matter. (I couldn’t locate the original image, but I’ve attempted a mini-version of it for reference.) But yeah, he sees things different. Slightly different dimension. Freakish. - excerpt from the Forward by Eddie Vedder for Todd Glaser’s “A Life of Waves”
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