Patent: Swim Fins Size:18x24 Shades of gold

Shades of gold

24x64 acrylic on panel

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

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

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Patent: Swim Fins Size:18x24 Shades of gold18x24 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