SHIFT 2019–2020
PROJECT TWO: LICHEN
STATUS: IN PROGRESS. In process of sending emails to collaborators. Hopefully some content coming soon.
li·chen
/ˈlīkən/
A simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crusty, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees. Typically, a lichen is an organism that results from a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism.
In our case, Lichen is a collective representing artists, activists, and scientists. It is our goal to create a platform that connects individuals concerned art, architecture, social justice, the environment, science, and everything in between in interdisciplinary, symbiotic, and challenging ways.
Initially, Lichen was born out of the aspiration to create something — something bigger than anything we could accomplish individually. We talked, and Saturday morning pipe dreams quickly became action plans and whispers of we could really do this thing. It seemed so obvious: create a platform where we would want to display and publish our own work, focused on topics that we think are interesting and important.
In that regard, Lichen is incredibly personal. Yet, what we are attempting to create is fundamentally reliant on community. If you dig this idea, we would love for you to stick around and join.
Website (just a skeleton atm, no real content):
There’s one faux entry in there. See if ya can find it. Otherwise, explore it and imagine it full of articles and art in the near future!
Cover Designs. (Medium’s color is a bit off)
END GOAL: create a publication, a thoughtfully crafted book comprised of articles, insights, and art relative to the theme of environmentalism. Maybe make this a semiannual or annual thing. Who knows?
PROJECT ONE: SNURFER
STATUS: COMPLETE (DEC.2019)
A bindingless snowboard, otherwise known as a snow surfer or “snurfer.” Carved from reclaimed barn wood using handtools. Spooned nose, tapered tail, surf-rocker profile. Specifically shaped for deep powder riding.
ABOUT ME
I’m Jacob, and I like being outside. I like breathing with the forests, rolling around in dirt, and burying myself knee-deep in snow.
That being said, I believe nature possesses intrinsic value, value which cannot be substituted by the commodities we extract from it. The natural spaces I cherish are under threat by humans. With a misconceived notion of “progress,” we tear away at the Earth, taking what we cannot give back, destroying our only home, causing irreversible change.
With this in mind, I create. My Snurfer is a fun little project that allows me to interact with nature in a new way. Lichen is more serious endeavor, a form of activism, a platform to spread the environmental movement and hopefully bring people closer to it.
