acrylic on panel, mounted printed patent on high quality acrylic panel
This piece is pure West Coast intellectual seduction. You’re looking at a hand-painted reinterpretation of U.S. Patent 5,273,472—a functional surf-fin design—reimagined as a moody, cinematic seascape. The artist didn’t just place a patent diagram on canvas; he elevated a piece of surf engineering into a kind of spiritual blueprint… the skeleton of motion, suspended over a storm-washed Pacific horizon.
The palette carries that “California at dusk” energy—slate sky, deep indigo water, the soft tension of an evening swell. The technical linework floats like a ghost of the surf, a reminder that every perfect carve has a lineage: a design ancestry, a quiet genius behind the glide.
To a collector, this is surf culture intellectualized. It’s California distilled into its most elegant duality—nature and engineering, instinct and design. It would sit effortlessly in a Sunset Plaza home or a Trousdale modernist space, where the architecture demands art with presence and pedigree.
This isn’t just a painting. It’s an artifact. A blueprint of movement wrapped in atmosphere. A piece for a collector who wants the essence of California—not the postcard clichés, but the soul beneath them.”
