00:04This is Anna Mae Dutton, born and bred in Seattle, living to shred in New York City,
00:11as a skateboarder and as a florist.
00:15My relationship to skateboarding is pretty much all love.
00:19It feels thrilling. It feels fast. It feels empowering.
00:24Because you're in control of your ride. You're directing yourself through time and space.
00:33I skateboard because I don't know how not to.
00:36I've been doing it since I was a kid and it's an impulse for me, like dancing when there's music.
00:42It gives me indulgence. It gives me joy, thrills, and some injuries.
00:47But that's par for the course.
00:53So as I'm a florist and I spend my days arranging flowers and tweaking the angle of a blossom to
00:59be more aesthetically pleasing,
01:01that's how I want my carve to be, poetic and feminine, yet at the same time gnarly.
01:09I think there's a direct correlation with the metaphor of pushing your physical limits.
01:15And so when you make a pattern of getting yourself beyond where you've known yourself to be capable,
01:22you're more apt to push those limits in other areas of your life.
01:29It's like creating a groundwork for going further.
01:32Now imagine what else I think that I can't do that now I'm going to prove to myself that I
01:38can.
01:40Within the world of skateboarding, I'm definitely an outsider.
01:43I learned to ignore it, but there's a lot of time where people's curiosities take a lot of energy.
01:49Is that your skateboard? Is that your boyfriend's skateboard?
01:51I wish I've gotten more occasions than I'd like to have made.
01:54If there's a barrier for female skaters, sure, there's a barrier for any outlier.
01:59Anyone who's breaking a norm of what people think you should and should not be doing,
02:04of course there's a barrier, but who wants to pay attention to that?
