Patent: Swim Fins Size:18x24 • Inside for all colors:

• Inside for all colors: 80% organic cotton

evoking the laid-back rhythm of coastal California life

All rights to the original photograph and text remain with John Severson’s estate and the respective copyright holders

The moody palette of dark colors and espresso brown evokes the quiet vastness of dusk

and cobalt—an artistic representation of pollutants bleeding into the sea

Patent: Swim Fins Size:18x24 • Inside for all colors:18x24 acrylic on panel, mounted printed patent on high quality acrylic panel What youre looking at here is an extraordinary fusion of surf history and contemporary fine art. Nathan Gibbs takes the original 1943 U. S. Patent for the Churchill swim finthe very fin that shaped modern bodysurfing and lifeguard cultureand elevates it into something visceral, luminous, and almost mythical. The background alone is a showstopper: a molten, sunset drenched sky