'Lemon in the Night' by Emma Courtney Cook & Austin Swearengin at mild climate, Nashville

mild climate is elated to debut new works from Emma Courtney Cook and Austin Swearengin in Lemon in the Night, the duo's most recent in an ongoing series of collaborative exhibitions. She is perfectly convinced that she doesn’t have to drink water if she eats enough fruit. She says - Hungarian Lisa says that she hasn’t drank a glass of water in over 2 years, but look at her, her skin is so hydrated and smooth, her hair full and soft.  One of the many centenarian people that thrive solely on just raw fruits. I said - I thought that she seemed manic. She says - she’s just peaking and we’re not used to that kind of pure fruit energy. He’s only into Basque culture and Brutalism because he thinks that it will be the two sustaining cultural schema that will last through a nuclear war. He vehemently hates noxious tonalities that ruin living rooms such as neon tangerine and ochre together. The two try to share their insights though most idiosyncratic elements are lost. His discussions of the benefits of rubber bullets and lawn fertilizers take over a bit. Though there is some happy medium between them that agrees on the benefits and refreshment of cold lemon water. It’s getting late - she says. There is a bubble of anxiety that vertically seizes. They both go separately into the night. - ECC ◊◊◊◊◊