Into The Ocean

A TV commercial for some pickup truck, that's how it all began. In the commercial the girl puts her surfboard into the back of her truck right next to a pier (which, by the way, could never happen because you can't park right under/next to a pier like that). When I saw the pier I thought 'that looks just like Venice Beach Pier' and then the girl drives away and right under the Venice Beach sign. That's when it hit me: all the piers in California are different. And so it began.

This project is something that I feel like I am meant to do; like it's part of some bigger purpose.  At the time I began feeling like I was supposed to do this, I was living in the Bay Area with little to no access to any ocean piers but it didn't matter. I became obsessed with this project. Pacifica Beach pier was a favorite then. The waves are really intense there and it's the only pier in an "L" shape.