Circle of Life

Circle of Life
Original acrylic painting on recycled skateboard deck by Isaiah Bogdanov
Featuring Bad Petrovich brand grip tape
From death, the forest. From the forest, the boar. And from the boar—life once more.
In “Circle of Life,” Isaiah Bogdanov turns a recycled skateboard into a mythic meditation on nature’s eternal exchange. Painted in acrylic on the worn wood of a once-ridden deck, the artwork begins with a curled, skeletal figure floating in an arc across the upper body of the board. It rests not in fear or torment—but in quiet surrender, dissolving into a vibrant bamboo thicket below.
Beneath the tangle of stalks and roots, a wild boar emerges—bold, present, fully alive. It doesn’t mourn the bones above. It benefits from them. It walks the forest floor nourished by the remnants of what came before. The bones give rise to the trees, the trees shelter the beast, and the beast carries the cycle forward.
Bogdanov’s layered, almost spiritual painting style turns this small vertical space into a vertical ecosystem—an evolutionary totem pole rendered in vibrant greens, soft bone tones, and primal gesture. The boar grounds the piece with earthbound energy, while the skeletal figure suggests transcendence, sacrifice, or rebirth.
Finished with the signature Bad Petrovich brand grip tape on the right side, the board becomes a functional relic—art that can still roll, carry, and endure. The recycled deck itself becomes part of the metaphor: once spent, now repurposed. Once scarred, now sacred.
To collect “Circle of Life” is to carry a message older than language: that death is not the end—it’s the foundation. From the bones of the fallen, the wild walks on.