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Skateboard Stories is an artistic investigation into the life cycle of a used skateboard and the narrative embedded within its traces. Over a period of eight months, a single pre-stickered skateboard was passed among different riders, each using it within their own habitual environment. The board served as a shared medium—an instrument of movement and expression—while simultaneously recording the marks, impacts, and abrasions of collective use.

Each trick performed left subtle evidence of encounter: the gradual erosion of color, the layering of scratches, the fading of surface gloss. These transformations were documented photographically and became the foundation for a silkscreen edition. Three specific moments—beginning, middle, and end—were selected to form a triptych at the original scale of the skateboard deck, encapsulating the visual and temporal evolution of the object.












































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