of. You had beaches, but nobody is surfing. It’ s too cold! You come out of Australia and it’ s 115 degrees and you hardly wore clothes and you always stood on a board on water. Coming back here I thought I’ d use it as a foreign idea in Toronto. At the time Marshall McLuhan was at his peak so things were more language-based and technology and print, so I started proposing surfing shacks and using the surf board as a means of communication. Surfer Rick is a series of models. I made that vehicle. I think it’ s a model of a Dodge van cutting two and joining them together, and rebashing it into a kind of hot rod motorbike. The first one was Surfer Rick. There’ s Boater Rick, Outer Rick. Why Rick? Rickshaw!
RAPID FIRE WITH KIM ADAMS
The artist I admire is... Gordon Matta-Clark who cut a house in half called Splitting.
I listen to... Bob Dylan both as music and in a deeper way, and J. J. Cale.
I drive a... Toyota Matrix, my second one.
I would like to drive a...( laughing) Ferrari but I need a truck. I like my Ford Transit but I’ ve drilled a lot of holes in it and they won’ t let me drive it. I drove it for a day.
Inside my car trunk you’ ll find a... Box of Beetle magazines and three animal cages and some wine bottles.
My secret weapon is... Humour.
I like going regularly to... New York three times a year. I always have my birthday there. I like to get older in New York. I can say,“ I’ m now 66 in New York instead of I’ m 66 in Toronto.” It’ s been a tradition for a long time, and it just feels better.
To be an artist you need... Elephant skin or a turtle shell.
My next inspiration is... Hoping for another one. I don’ t really work in that term but a Jacuzzi water fountain. Think of a big boulder or monument and a Jacuzzi.
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