It has been more than two years since Minnamurra artist Chris Anderson announced his plan to install a grand graveyard of 1000 broken surfboards on the sands of the Royal National Park.
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He plans to part bury the board pieces at Garie Beach as an artwork.
It will be a temporary tribute to the connection between surfers and their boards, and a reminder of man's wastefulness, since so many surfboards are not recycled.
Now, with his parents' backyard littered with 660 donated boards, Mr Anderson needs help bringing his project to completion.
He is calling for more broken boards - 340 more.
"Collecting the boards has been difficult," said Mr Anderson, who began his project as a graphic design student, and now continues as a sideline to his work as a media arts tutor at UOW.
"My mum isn't too keen on having them all in the backyard but her motto is, 'If I can't see them, they're not there'.
"The key to it is neat stacking. It's like a big puzzle."
If all goes well, Mr Anderson will invite members of the public to help him bury the boards as part of an installation artwork he will photograph and feature in a documentary.
Sometimes he has found boards at beaches or on the side of roads, or dropped off anonymously at his house.
But the project has brought him into contact with surfers with interesting tales of how their boards broke, including a man who snapped his in 6 to 7-foot waves at Bombo Beach.
"The board snapped right down towards the fin area, so he only had a tiny amount of board to hang on to.
"He held onto it in massive surf. He said he would have drowned without it."
Mr Anderson has invited contributions to his project, 1000 Surfboard Graveyard, via 0400 235 412 or the project's Facebook page.
