CRAFT: Shaping a Surfboard
text by Dave Parmenter
2009
Eight spit-bite aquatint etchings and letterpress,
17 pages, 13 in. x 12 in.,
edition of 20
$3,000
"I spent a lot of time nosing around in Dave’s San Luis Obispo shaping-shack when he wasn’t there, ogling the strange tools and stranger claustrophobic space. Then I watched him shape a board and envied his skill. A painting or print does not have to perform physically, as does a board, but the pressure on Dave to create a perfect object, his ability to create this great curvilinear shape out of a hunk of foam that will also withstand the force of a large wave, was humbling." –Jessica Dunne
