📝 Words by Mike Munzenrider
🎨 Art by Francesco Pini
📷 Photography by Jas Cuhadar, Don Luong & Raisa Abal
Bouquet after bouquet, Ruby Lilley was inundated with flowers at this spring’s premiere of Foundation Super Co.’s latest full-length, Today, Tomorrow, Forever. “Why are people just bringing me flowers,” Lilley says she remembers thinking, “is it because I’m a girl?” Between bouquets, people were bugging Lilley for tickets she didn’t have. On top of all that was the matter of her video part, her first for Foundation, and the nerves associated with putting yourself out there on the big screen for all to see. When her part was about to play, Lilley says she worried: “What if people look at each other and laugh?”
Nobody laughed. Instead, Foundation surprised Lilley, a disarming 19-year-old bowl threat who loves frontside disasters, by turning her pro that night. Months later, nursing a broken foot at home, she reflected on that evening, saying, “It was the most overwhelming, overstimulating, stressful, best feeling ever.”
