bruce + vince | not far out

BRUCE AND VINCE

not far out!

Bruce spent approximately 150 hours creating the surfer and the surfboard for his part of the sculpture and mailed it out from San Quentin. He created it using the limited materials available in prison: newspaper, floorwax, drywall, wire, paint, and a CD player (for the moving motor). He created it using a paper machétype technique with floorwax and newspaper to cover a paper and wire frame. He then created the fine detail using a drywall/floor-wax mixture and finished it with paint and wax.

Vince spent approximately 150 hours creating the wave for his part of the sculpture and combined the two parts. He used wire fencing and scrap wood to create the frame and then melted plastic trash collected from the ocean over it. The whitewater was created from a fishing net and shredded remnants of plastic bottles.

They established the scale and color scheme through written letters and their intuition as to what the other person would do. The surfer is mounted with epoxy on a platform of melted plastic.

30-foot waves Vince saw at Monterey Beach and sent photos of to Bruce, who responded through snail mail with, “No one was surfing that day?” 37

38" x 18" x 17”

John Vonderlin collected and donated the plastic used in this piece as it washed onto the shores of Pescadero. A warm thank you from us all; you've filled your life with the the things that nobody else wanted and have managed to make something beautiful. Check out John's collection and works at https://www.flickr.com/ photos/johnvonderlin.

Bruce deconstructed a CD player to make the above motor, which actually runs when turned on!