FORCE FINS
BOB EVANS 1983

Everything about these flippers is fin de siecle: the pomo polymers, the aberrant construction, the twisted shape. Bob Evans, a Santa Barbara deep-sea photographer, spent years studying how tuna and dolphins move through the water. He and hard-core divers talk about the fins in terms of wingtip and thrust, energy storage and increased swimming efficiency. Isn't it possible they work even better as pure objects? Counterintuitive and ravishing, their form, as the surrealists would say, is uncanny. Someday we will all wear them on land.