Another Scrimshaw, Surfer, Art Form Connection

Another Scrimshaw, Surfer, Art Form Connection

I love this! Finding "real-world forms" as we go.

Peter Spacek -PS: "I know. It’s weird. As I started to cut up old boards, I began to see real-world shapes. A book in a rail cross-section, a smile in a fin curve, a perfect barrel in a delaminating glass job. The shapes themselves kind of told me what to etch on them.

RG: And unlike many surf artists, you actually infuse humor into most of your pieces.

PS: Well that’s always been my style, part of my “artistic persona.” Or to put it another way, I’m a sucker for a gag…so I saw no reason to stop." Surfer mag - check it out!

Cartography

Grave

            Graven

                        Gravura

            Gravitas.

Graver.

            Engraver.

A typeface based on copperplate style,

Calligraphy

            Caliph

Cartography,

The maps of the heart show our provenance,

The journeys we’ve made, what we bring,

What we have gained.

Script

If not scrimshaw

Scroll work

Engravings

Engrained

Carving bone or ivory

Harvesting whalers’

Handiwork, byproduct of

What our DNA brings forward

As if carved into our

Choices as we make them,

Plainly

Once we open our eyes

As we take that one step at a time.

Don’t wait.

If scrolls are not read

When they’re ready they become relics,

Turned to stone and bone fragments

To be pieced together by

Men

Women

of another time,

Whiling away a present to seek

Seeds of a story they have

Forgotten.

           

Scrimshaw.

            Harvest.

from my new book