Kelly Slater, the fortune teller, depicted in the streets of Encinitas

Bert, the anonymous surf street artist, has painted a 17-foot tall Kelly Slater as a fortune teller, on the Coast Highway, in Encinitas, California. In 2003, when asked where he sees himself in 10 years, Kelly Slater promptly responded. “Competing at Pipe, against kids like John John Florence. He is only ten years old, but […]

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Bert, the anonymous surf street artist, has painted a 17-foot tall Kelly Slater as a fortune teller, on the Coast Highway, in Encinitas, California. In 2003, when asked where he sees himself in 10 years, Kelly Slater promptly responded. “Competing at Pipe, against kids like John John Florence. He is only ten years old, but already charging Pipe. When he is 20, I’ll be 40, and hopefully I will have a chance to surf against him”. The prophecy, that can be found in Slater’s biography “Pipe Dreams”, was right, and it served as an inspiration for another secret work by Bert.

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