HOKUSAI

. . . Well, not really. moving paint around for me has more to do with adrenal/limbic systems and biomorphic forms. Interior space depictions. I suppose in Hokusai's crested wave- even in its chaos- there is nary a wasted movement or stroke; an ordered chaos.

There is also a bit of an homage to Scorpions guitarist Mattias Jabs' Gibson Explorer, as well as Skater Steve Stedham's old Powell graphics.

I started skating again, to try to de-dough-ify a bit (to uh, invent a word) and thought I'd put some paint to the plank just for heck. The fish board is an old Alva Craig Johnson (sanded the graphic off; the colors were causing me anxiety, sorry.) and the larger hammerhead is a Hosoi blank. I'll do a parlor coffin shape next, and maybe so sort of longboard iteration with a similar faceted geometric sidecut. No nu-skool flippy boards that rattle your teeth out. I'm too old and brittle for that !@#$.