After two years of planning, travelling, filming and editing, Taylor Steele sat down with Proximity to ask one final question:
What does it mean?
Why is not something we surfers ask of ourselves all too often. For us, it may be that such rhetoric is akin to the question, “Why breathe?”
But Proximity was different like that. The film will tour art galleries and mainstream theaters. There is a virtual reality component and photo book. It’s the intentional antithesis of the deluge of disposable web-edits and Instagram clips, curating a deeply layered experience that will stand the test of time.
“Surfing’s not a teenager anymore,” explains Steele. “It’s grown up a lot. And we wanted to create something that reflected that level of maturity and sophistication.”
Yet, there were other…
