California Dreamin'

The easygoing lifestyle of the West Coast made popular by the Beach Boys in the early 1960s expanded into the Californian Myth: people far away from the actual state longing for an idyllic world of leisure, bright light, and utopian spaces where it seems to be afternoon forever, where everybody is beautiful and nobody needs to work. In this new work, I am exploring the dream of this iconic lifestyle, inspired by David Hockney and the visual aesthetics of the surf culture in the 1960s – the decade where fantasy, spiritual exploration, and body culture thrived.