How to Train Your Pet Turtle to Retrieve Lemons for Lemon Drop Juice

2014

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Omaha, Nebraska

Watch Video: https://vimeo.com/142205228

How to Train Your Pet Turtle to Retrieve Lemons for Lemon Drop Juice is an installation and video work created at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. The installation includes a colorful, lemon forrest, in front of a hazy, blue background. A little girl and her pet turtle sleep above the forrest on a platform and travel below to retrieve lemons for lemon drop juice. The video outlines instructions for how to train your pet turtle to retrieve lemons for lemon drop juice with actress, Fiona Tobin and Steve the turtle.

Bemis Center Interview: https://vimeo.com/191055528

Video was created in collaboration with Justin Plakas. Video was curated by the Institute for New Feeling’s FELTBOOK project in 2015