Design by Brianna Delaney
Words by Kevin Susienka

This project was (very much so) conceived with the intention of showcasing what some of the important people in our past are up to in the present. Brianna Delaney was there with us in the good old days, helping to paint an important picture of the Boston skateboard scene with amazingly executed tricks, some of the most memorable ones coming from a relatively new spot called Eggs.

Lest we forget that not everyone who will read this is a skateboarder, Nashua Street Park, known as Eggs for the granite shapes that decorate its now world famous layout, is a skateboard spot in Boston originally meant for pedestrian traffic, just like every other skateboard spot. Skateboarders are glorified pedestrians. We disobey the rules of the sidewalk and the rules of the road and the rules of private property and the rules of public property all at the same time.

After decades of disobedience and a commitment to progress on a skateboard, Brianna Delaney recently had a well-deserved chance to design her own shoe for Converse, for which she choose to pay tribute to Eggs. If you’re familiar with what Brianna has accomplished at that spot over the years, there is not a more fitting concept. The speckled gray of the ground and sculptures, the ironic blue of the dirty water in the Charles River and the drawing of the top view of the park’s centerpiece inside the star all do it for us. The question is, for the asking price of ninety-five bucks, do they come with the backside tailslides that we’ve been not-so-secretly jealous of for the past decade? If so, they’re worth far more.

ROSEWATER 0004 // March 2024