borrowed views
surf resin exhibition | no. 4
byron bay, australia | barcelona, spain | biarritz, france
THE story
A few years ago, while traveling and documenting artists and craftspeople, I found myself rediscovering my own practice through the lens. While filming shapers at McTavish in Australia, I became drawn to the leftover surf resin accumulating on the workshop floor—material destined for the bin. Offcuts, residue, remnants: what others overlooked as waste, I saw as something worth rearranging my entire schedule for.
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The resin, in its overlooked state, became a vessel for making—an entry point into reconnecting with a quieter hum of creativity and the community of making that surrounded me.
Finding beauty in the unseen and unintentional has always been the center of my practice.
Borrowed Views takes its name from shakkei (借景), a Japanese principle of borrowed scenery. The philosophy is simple and humbling: we never truly own what we see. We only borrow the view.
What has emerged from this developing body of work resonates alongside these philosophies—honoring the unseen, the unintentional, the discarded. To transform waste into art is to reveal what was always there: community, creation, and the quiet hum of beauty that accumulates through time, layering itself the way nature does, largely unwitnessed.
