#2123 – Bottle
Posted on July 19, 2021 at 12:24 pm by Chris
Have you ever sent out a message in a bottle? As a kid I always thought it would be a fun thing to do but growing up in the Midwest, I suffered from a severe lack of access to the ocean.
Tags: bottle, pool, swimming, water
“Have you ever sent out a message in a bottle?”
Fun story: one of my best friends is an artist/performer and, since a couple decades ago, one of his specialties (I don’t really know if I’m using the right technical word here :D) is “Useless Performances”, where he spends a lot of effort into doing something completely ineffective, like flying to some remote place to meet some other artist who’s been dead for a century, or traveling 200 Km to get a fire log.
The first Useless Performance, and the one that gave birth to the whole concept, was him throwing a bottled message into the Mediterranean Sea, addressed to me (I live on the Swiss Alps).
The performance was doubly useless, because the bottle hit a rock and broke even before touching the water :’D
I’m *not* making this up:
https://www.masilugano.ch/en/1080/silvano-repetto
https://ticinowelcome.ch/en/item/1581-al-masi-di-lugano-silvano-repetto-con-proiezioni-inutili