Tribal Ritual

Scott McCarney and Skuta at Visual Studies opening for 52/52+ in Rochester, NY
Scott McCarney and Skuta at Visual Studies opening for 52/52+ in Rochester, NY

The lawns were going brown in May and now the golf course is flooded. Not that I’m golfer but we do cut across one of the holes when we walk and I am always on the lookout for balls. I have about ten gallons of them in the garage. I’m fairly certain of the quantity because I have stuffed them down the throat of those five gallon, bottled water jugs that are made of the toxic plastic. We had bottled water delivered when we were on trade but those days are gone and we are probably a lot healthier for it. We drink water straight from the tap now. Is that dangerous? I guess we could filter it but I wonder if you lose the minerals when you do that? Sometimes you get a chlorine hit but it usually tastes pretty good.

The path in the woods across the street was covered with tulip petals. Not the flower, they’re long gone. These are the blossoms of the tulip trees and we have a lot of them down here. I don’t remember ever seeing a tulip tree in the city. I think the rain filled the flowers and broke them off. We had a lot wind too so maybe that was a factor. The petals are green and orange and yellow. They look edible and are scattered on the path as if in preparation for some tribal ritual.

Artist’s books are a funny thing. They don’t always make for a good book. They are often something only an artist could love. Scott McCarney, though, is one of the best. He’s curated the current show at Visual Studies Workshop for his roommate from 26 years ago, when they were both students at VSW. Skuta who now lives in Iceland, created a book a week for a full year and 52 of them are on display here.

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  1. Rochester’s tap water is actually really high quality because it comes from our own Hemlock lake which has no houses around it and power boats are not allowed- pristine.
    Those jugs you were getting your water in most likely contain BPA which is very bad and is absorbed by water. So they are actually worse than tap.
    The one thing I do is filter for chlorine but you can just leave water in a glass container open in the fridge for a few hours- the chlorine goes away.

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