This is my installation currently on display at the Gallery of Arts and Culture in Crescent City, California. It’s part of a 3 person photography show up through November 26th.
I milled the moulding for these frames using salvaged claro walnut, redwood and tiger-striped myrtlewood.
Pictured is Eli Andersen of Portland, Oregon, with a 15’ redwood paddleboard. Eli makes his own paddleboards and kayaks on which he does long, solo paddling adventures. This board was made from wood salvaged from his mom’s deck. It weighs about 50 pounds. Eli made it for a solo circumnavigation of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia that he will attempt this summer. He will paddle about ten miles a day. At this pace Eli will complete his trip in two and half months, his window being June 1st to August 15th.
Eli has already paddled the entire Oregon Coast — which also took him a full summer to complete — and solo kayaked the length of the inside passage from southeast Alaska to Washington. On his Oregon coast trip he paddled about fifteen miles a day, carrying four or five days of supplies and camping gear. Then he would hitch hike back to his truck, drive back to his board, camp for the night and re-supply and then do it all over again. There are very few roads in Haida Gwaii, so he will have to talk fishermen into dropping off supply packs at various locations on the islands.
Eli says he gets in rhythm when he is paddling about two miles from shore. There’s less current out there and it seems to be where he gets his best glide. He said that whales, dolphins and birds seem to prefer traveling along this watery thoroughfare as well. Eli does these paddling adventures for no other reasons than to see a place. No cause, no fanfare — he just really loves being out there.
Here’s a sample of some of the framed prints I donated for the Art Benefit tonight in Irvine.
These are 8 x 8” fiber prints made from a Lomo toy camera, all of them are number 1 in an edition of 10. I made the frames from salvaged redwood and finished them with teak oil.
This is a frame I made recently for one of my Rincon prints. It went to a friend in Santa Barbara. It’s made from reclaimed redwood and Port Orford cedar.
