Marcel Winatschek

Sun in Your Head

Rain somewhere, everywhere—the kind that just settles on you. Makes you want to be literally anywhere else. Not the thoughtful kind of rain, just the stuck kind.

Surfing Magazine swimsuit issue, because apparently every magazine with a heartbeat has one now. Jason Lee Parry shot it. Britt Maren and others—women the way they come out of water, golden and uncomplicated. That’s what this is and that’s all it’s pretending to be. Sex before summer. Escapism bound in paper.

The articles about boards and breaks aren’t the draw. The point is a few minutes where the rain outside stops existing and your brain gets permission to rest. The sun goes back on, at least in your head. You close the magazine and nothing’s actually changed except you got to leave for a while.