LOOK 1125: Newness and Oldness
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Our newest collection is about night surfing, underwater gardens and places where the desert meets the sea. It's old ideas taking a new form; formations of contemplation, memory and deviations of reality. This collection is about the embodiment of accepting oldness in the presence of newness.
Since the beginning of college, I have moved to a new place every six months to a year in search of newness. But in every new place that I'd end up, I wished for the old. I wished for the place that had become comfortable and easy, comedically simple, almost laughable. And then remember that it wasn't always like that. Simplicity is built, ease comes with hard growth and mistakes that you vow to never make again but continue to anyways. Complications of the future and what we think is conceivable are simply just deviations of reality. It's dreaming of surfing in the dead of night when you've never done it before; it's imagining your bedroom turn into an underwater garden of eclectic types of seaweed or wondering if there will ever be a world where the desert meets the ocean. It doesn't make sense and yet it isn't supposed to because something new would never exist without something old. A couple of weeks ago, a big winter swell pranced through Kona, calling all surfers to convene at Lyman's and pile up on waves so rare. I ran down with my big lens and watched it all go down. It was competition, grit, laughter and fun all in one. Five people paddling for one wave, another five getting caught in the mess and one making it out the back- over and over again until the sun went down. From a spectators perspective, it was a beautiful mess; but from a surfer's, it was poetry in motion. And the thing with big swells is that it may never be that good again. The next new one may only make you wish you could relive the last. And that's where we are now. Living in the new, wishing upon the old and finding the presence of it all whether it be a beautiful mess, poetry in motion, weird dreams or false realities. Quite simply, a jumbled puzzle whose pieces just need to be found. |
