Back in the early 90s, I was a student in art school at Kutztown U always looking for a window to go surfing. The scene was set to the underground punk, indie & grunge edge soundtrack with a bass line from the golden age of hip hop, teeming with explorative emotional energy, & no cell phones. Taylor Steele had just released Momentum, & the generation was running & gunning, showing us a glimpse of what would become the new guard in this era’s surfing adventure. Companies were exploding & imploding all at once in the mad rush to get in on what we already knew, that the surf culture was king. & it was a pioneering force in every fashion. Ever inspired by the movement I was immersed in, I created an image for 7th Street Surf Shop a younger local shop (since ‘86) that I believed represented one south facing corner of a tiny island in the northeast where I grew up surfing, in Ocean City NJ. It has been humbling to see all the incredible surfers rise up in the international spotlight who actually placed this image on their boards. It always felt underground & synonymous with progression in surfing of the moment, pedal down into the unknown. I’ve since recreated it many times, (so have the groms) & the core always stays the same. The waves have been good this Summer too….so drop in, tune out & get barreled.