{"id":2769,"date":"2019-05-20T18:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T22:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T23:24:39","slug":"bill-scott-tree-trunk-art-yukon-territory-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"BILL SCOTT, TREE TRUNK ART, YUKON TERRITORY 1960’S"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YUKON JOB<\/div>\n

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Art is what you think is art.<\/div>\n

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BILL SCOTT and I spent an unforgettable summer doing geophysical  prospecting in the Yukon Territory in the Early 1960\u2019s.<\/div>\n
Our base was  Mayo Landing (red  false  front store below) which was just a tiny village really whose centre  was  that<\/div>\n
grey nondescript hotel.<\/div>\n

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In the bush where we spent most our time there was  a place where a forest fire had swept through decades ago.  The trees still stood\u2026bare and<\/div>\n
wind scoured by many winters.  As a result their shapes were wonderful.  Two of them I was able to rescue and send back to Toronto by a truck<\/div>\n
along with a  big set of caribou antlers.  Our boss, Dr. Norman Patterson, might have been amused had he known.  I paid  the freight bill but had<\/div>\n
a very tough time getting the trucking company to hand over the shipment.  They thought something important was missing and figured my tree<\/div>\n
trunks  and antlers were just junk.<\/div>\n

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The scoured tree trunks were interesting in another way as well.  The growth rings were tiny.  The trunk that Bill and I are<\/div>\n
shortening for instance is more than 100 years old yet only the witch of a goal post..   <\/div>\n

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As I remember Bill Scott was not as enamoured of the dead tree as he seems in the picture below.<\/div>\n

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Our client was Dr. Aho who often treated  us to a \u2018double OP\u2019 which is overproof rum and a little Coca  cola.  Deadly.  This might explain<\/div>\n
our behaviour.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
May 2019<\/div>\n

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PS  Norm\u2026send this forward to Bill Scott \u2026 he might be amused<\/div>\n

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YUKON JOB Art is what you think is art. BILL SCOTT and I spent an unforgettable summer doing geophysical  prospecting in the Yukon Territory in the Early 1960\u2019s. Our base was  Mayo Landing (red  false  front store below) which was just a tiny village really whose centre  was  that grey nondescript hotel. In the bush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}