"The most challenging surfboard I've ever built!"
Recently, the highly cited New York-via-Miami artist Daniel Arsham petitioned Australian surfboard shaper Hayden Cox to build an art piece for a department store exhibit in London.
Called The House, and squatting on a corner at Selfridges in Oxford Street, Arsham “has reimagined the typical family home (and the everyday home goods it’s filled with), to represent the distant future of 3019.”
Cox’s piece is a ninety-pound (forty kg), solid-resin trans-surfboard, mold-cast and hand sculptured.
Per Hayden’s blog,
This is by far the most challenging surfboard I’ve ever built. We tried and failed about 3 times before it finally got there. There are no shortcuts when working with resin in this form. This particular board is a non-functional art piece, however adding to the fun challenges of this project, I’m excited to release what’s to come on the performance surfboard sides of things. Definitely our coolest collab yet.
The clear board sculpture is currently on display in Selfridges London as part of ‘The House’ by Daniel Arsham. It is for sale for collectors/the public by direct enquiry only.
Think y’might be seeing a few of these in the water?
I was told by HS,
“We are planning to release a limited run of a functional version of the transparent surfboards next summer! A few of the execution and methods are still being tweaked to perfection… work in progress and Hayden himself is riding and testing this week.”
There could be, as Voltaire would say, some correlating themes here.
The destruction of Arsham’s house as a child in Florida by hurricane Andrew when he was just twelve forced him to move and was a traumatic experience, hence the “See through” house.
Would a see though surfboard protect us from our own “hurricanes” with rows of multiple incisors?
Ya gotta admit, it would enhance our Peripheral vision.
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I wonder if this thing (at 90lbs) would even float?
LOOK AT ME …..let’s Hope we see Arse-ham shitting on the glass toilet and when he finally defecates .
We will shout out in critical unison ;
« Y’a Dumb Arse-ham …. THAT’S THE BEST OF YOU GONE ! «
He is welcome to reply , but as we know , men who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…..
Possibly more apt if the narcissistic Cox , had made it with a mirror like reflecting surface instead of this see through , transparent œuvre ?
Cox asks « Mirror Mirror on the wall ,
who makes the loveliest non performance boards of all ? »
Mirror Board replies « You Hayden You …..you sexy thing « then like Uncle Scrooge jumps , into the treasure bath …
I coulda sworn old mate whasisface produced some plexiglass hollow sleds back in the 70’s.
Hippy’s Mate …. Greenough and Mitchell Rae from Outer Islands flex tails , just to name a few .
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A real artist.
Yeah, like when they can’t get a double soy caramel latte anymore, all that BLM shit will quickly be discarded
not if we kill you first!
Now you’re just embarrassing yourself. Have some dignity Maurice.
haha , how dare you talk about dignity when you have already stated that you would take up arms against your fellow countryman for Herrr Trump and his cult….what a fucken loser….USA is the laughing stock of the world as Tump trys to destroy anything and anybody who disagrees with him…..
When Dems have talked about secession, Washington, Oregon and California in particular, I have commented that we’d just invade and take it back. At that point, they’re not my countrymen. There’s no lack of dignity there.
ah the smell of civil war………so the states leave the USA , and you will invade by force….not sure where the dignity is killing former Americans ??
I’m no art critic
But I suspect Hayden’s not
A Mini-Mal-ist
I like art and surfing but I see neither of those things in this board.
..go suck ya cox….
Helps you dodge the sharks.
So very now
Cox & Trenchcoat. Flashy.
Cocks and Arseham – top collab.
a clear board that can hopefully hit old mate cox in the face without him seeing it coming. what a stupid cunt for thinking this would be a good idea. why couldn’t he just post nudes of his mrs on his website instead?
Is she hot?
Let’s be honest, how much of a difference would it really make? We’d still all hop over and take a peak.