North America

Fourteen breaks from the Pacific to the Atlantic, painted around the structure that fixes each one in place: a pier, a lighthouse, a fort, a shack.

In California, the state’s historic record defines Trestles as a district with seven named surf breaks and two railroad trestles at San Mateo Creek, and the National Park Service lists the Malibu Historic District for its role in the development of modern surfing between 1945 and 1959. At Windansea in La Jolla, the City of San Diego designated the palm-covered Surf Shack as Historical Resource No. 358 in 1998. Steamer Lane sits below Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz, where the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse houses the city’s surfing museum.

On Oʻahu, the State of Hawaii identifies the tuff cone above Waikīkī as Diamond Head and Lēʻahi, and Waimea Bay on the North Shore is marked at its western side by Waimea Rock. On the Oregon coast, Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland at Pacific City facing a separate basalt sea stack.

The Atlantic side is lighthouses and piers: Cape Hatteras, the 1870 brick tower near Buxton whose spiral daymark followed in 1873; Montauk Point, completed in 1796 at the eastern end of Long Island; Cocoa Beach Pier, which city records date to 1962; and Rockaway Beach in Queens, where the boardwalk was reconstructed after Hurricane Sandy.

Every print is painted from that documented geography – not from a stock photo – and printed to order in inches or centimetres, framed or unframed.