Trine found this surfboard in the trash, painted it cobalt blue and added gold leaf to the tip. “I’ve been a recovering hoarder for most of my life,” he jokes. Though he considers this kind of stuff only loosely related to his practice, it’s also part of “this weird visual data file in my brain” that he can draw on to create new products. “A lot of the development has been connected to some kind of client or customer request. I’m sitting on a shape or idea and waiting for it to slam against that request. That’s always been my approach. I need to have that tangible, practical request, to know that someone is desiring this thing. And then I have all this stuff in the back that’s like playtime.”