It's all predicated on a basic truism: surfers make
bitchin' stuff. We've been running surf art portfolios for well over
a decade, displaying a wide array of styles, schools and
media. From the representational to the abstract; from the
figurative to the conceptual; from sculpture to glass... they've all had a chance
to hang in our little 2-D gallery space. As a result, we receive about 85 art
submissions each year. Of those, we choose perhaps three to augment
the two we assign. Edem Elesh came in out of the blue, in person, and
blew us away with his evocative, narrative and powerfully
expressionistic work. The craft is crazy, the concepts are unique, and the
overall package utterly imaginative- no cliche or shtick to
be found.