Jul. 10, 2024

Demostrations of Patterns in flow – What do you expect from your surfaces?.
AKA “A philosophy of Bicycle MotoCross (BMX) and everything.”

To who it may concern,

Essay: All I see is a demonstration of patterns in flow within these lines. I know you don’t understand. I don’t expect it at all. It’s a philosophy, I guess, as you have to practice it and then you understand the whole idea of flatland as a discipline with the sport of bicycle motocross. AKA BMX. I guess you mostly famously you know this extreme sport from the famous scene from Spielberg’s 1982 classic ‘ET’, as a couple of the professionals of that era (as they are dressed up as hooded youth) jump in front of the moon. But as Viki Gomez, current world champion in this BMX discipline describes it “Flatland is an art form where imagination, a bike and a smooth flat ground areneeded in order for the artist to create tricks and express their self”. Things like surface become extremely important to how you see the idea of movement. As just like in other disciplines: like Floor in gymnastics and in contemporary terms Break dancing. But you don’t need to wear any fetishistic lycra garments, just ride a child-size bicycle that turns into an obsession in various different areas of your life. Especially when it I come to finding ‘spots”, aka areas land to ride within. Carparks are always a good choice but there is always a piece of derelict asphalt to be found. I also would call it a psychogeographical adventure that all of the professional BMXers, which are quoted in this text, have plunged into all their lives without knowing. Well, finding empty, perfectly smooth surfaces can be seen in that way. Oh, and as the title of the activity suggests, a piece of flat ground, flatland if you don’t get it yet. Not bumpy, not rough, perfectly flat...