Swims After Eating — Channeled Piece (UNYC Member Portrait)

Unnamed Yacht Club

The Unnamed Yacht Club is a collection of 12 member portraits made from memories, mementos, and imagery. Photography, graphic design, fiber arts, and woodwork come together to introduce you to people you already know.

The vibe is relaxed. The finish has patina. The members are unapologetically themselves — most certainly flawed, and always patting the seat next to them for you to join in.

Meet This Member: Swims After Eating

His membership is on file. Club number 2684. Mooring: His Parents. Guests: with his sister. Server: also Declan.

never waits 30 minutes after eating
“borrowed” a dinghy, came back with someone else’s cooler
he’s networking, if his mom asks
the girl in the red suit (who Declan likes) is his sister

Good Standing.

The Channeled Piece

Each UNYC portrait begins with photography. Ashley Lippincott deconstructs the image and rebuilds it through graphic design, creating the coastal pop art composition you see here. That design is then printed in-house on matte canvas, sewn and upholstered using a marine upholstery sewing machine and thread, and framed in a custom maple frame held together with a sapele spline.

The result is a raised, dimensional, tactile surface unlike anything in traditional painting — coastal pop art you can almost feel.

Signed and dated on verso by Ashley Lippincott, 2026.

The Bag Is Also Art

This piece arrives in its own custom oversized coastal pop art boat bag — white canvas with red leather handles and trim, embroidered with the member’s monogram sEA and Good Standing on the front. The back carries the piece’s defining line: “wait 30 minutes.”

Embroidered on the front: “The Original 1.” There is only one. It belongs with this piece.

The bag is not packaging. It is part of the work.

• Collection: Unnamed Yacht Club — Members in Good Standing
• Process: Photography → graphic design → in-house print on matte canvas → sewn and upholstered → custom maple frame with sapele spline
• Edition: 1/1 — original, no prints or editions of this piece
• Signed and dated on verso by Ashley Lippincott, 2026
• Guest check hangs from a hand-tied monkey’s fist knot in the member’s colorway
• Includes custom embroidered coastal pop art boat bag, marked “The Original 1”