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Paradise East : Find surfing’s lost soul in a paradise of pure invention Kim, Natalie

Abstract

When you imagine paradise, what do you see? A palm tree? An island? A beach? Do you see bright blues? Surfers riding the horizon? Do you feel humidity and heat? Hear sounds of birds, breezes, and the crashing of waves? As a Western audience, our sense of paradise is largely shared. We could all point to a few places on a map, but paradise is inherently placeless, caught somewhere between the cognitive and the real. Aloha from Paradise East. Like the paradise in your head, Paradise East boasts warm water, healthy palm trees, surfing, and relaxation. Unlike the paradise in your head, Paradise East is free from the colonial ties and misogyny that sadly poisons our oceans every day. It is a counter landscape, challenging placelessness with place, the future with nostalgia, and nature with artifice. Find surfing’s lost soul in a Paradise of pure invention.

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Title
Paradise East : Find surfing’s lost soul in a paradise of pure invention
Creator
Kim, Natalie
Date Issued
2021-12-30
Description
When you imagine paradise, what do you see? A palm tree? An island? A beach? Do you see bright blues? Surfers riding the horizon? Do you feel humidity and heat? Hear sounds of birds, breezes, and the crashing of waves? As a Western audience, our sense of paradise is largely shared. We could all point to a few places on a map, but paradise is inherently placeless, caught somewhere between the cognitive and the real. Aloha from Paradise East. Like the paradise in your head, Paradise East boasts warm water, healthy palm trees, surfing, and relaxation. Unlike the paradise in your head, Paradise East is free from the colonial ties and misogyny that sadly poisons our oceans every day. It is a counter landscape, challenging placelessness with place, the future with nostalgia, and nature with artifice. Find surfing’s lost soul in a Paradise of pure invention.
Subject
surf; place; placeless; futurism; nostalgia; decolonialism
Geographic Location
Seoul (Korea); Hawaii; Indonesia; Korea
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2022-01-05
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0406152
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80523
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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