Artist Statement: For the first few years of surfing, I blew past its artistic qualities in hopes of trying to be the best in the water. Along the path of accepting that I won’t be the best, I realized that the surfers I look up to most are far more than surfers. Painting, music, sculpting, clothing, skating, shaping. A whole new world that I’d been oblivious to for my whole life. I went into cera...