The unknown radius

Sophie Yanow on the embodied practice of skateboarding and moving forward a millimeter at a time.

This is the third dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x Simple Magic that takes a look, whiff, listen, taste, and feel of skateboarding’s effect on the senses. Today, a story told in illustrations by Sophie Yanow.

Read dispatch one on the smell of skating under overpasses.

Read dispatch two on the sound of skating over bricks.