Blair Habenicht. At the 2017 Holy Bowly in Sunshine Village, AB, the carefully crafted assortment of shapes seemed to expand infinitely. Solving any part of the terrain puzzle led to an entirely new vision for your next run. The action was a given—with a global contingent of high-output riders on hand, it was going to happen, and it was going to be creative. But what was more attractive to me was the nonlinear architecture of what Krush Kulesza, Snowboy Productions and Arena Snowparks cre-ated. It was a masterpiece of transition located in some of the best scen-ery Banff had to offer—sacred geometry for snow-sliders. Lumps lead to arcing lines. There wasn’t a right angle to be seen. My compositions became focused on the softness of the shapes. My favorite photographs from the event show the snowboarding as com-plementary to the terrain manipulation; nothing seeming forced. I tried to bring the scenery and action into the bowl, mixing the three aspects in a way not seen in nature, but surely influenced by it. It’s possible that without snowboarding, the bowl would have no life. The bowl’s shapes allowed lines to become its nervous system, the riders became its connection to the surrounding beauty; its senses, if you will. My presentation is purely two-dimensional, but the riding existed in three-dimensional space, a study in snowboard architecture with infinite potential. SACRED SNOWSCAPES 091
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