Process

The Wait Was the Review

Over twenty years ago Nashville, my hometown, got its first real concrete skatepark, out at Two Rivers, and those of us in the local scene checked on the construction constantly. I’ve built dozens of wooden ramps over the years, maybe hundreds. Wood has no clock in it. You can take all the time you want, and when you get it wrong you back the screws out and cut another piece. Years after finishing my own ramp I tore off the entire skating surface and rebuilt it. The one thing I couldn’t rebuild was the concrete pool coping, which stayed exactly as it had been set.