Every Object Has A Ritual by Selena Kearney

8 x 9 inches, 29 color images; board book, 48 pages; $50 plus shippingISBN: 978-1-7356423-8-3 Featured in The Guardian, May 4, 2024; Art Zone with Nancy Guppy; The Seattle Times, November 24, 2023. Books distributed in 2024 to 100 public and private K-12 schools throughout the United States bearing Native mascots  Photographer Selena Kearney deftly pulls viewers into a complex dialogue through her series “Object / Ritual.” Over five years, she acquired, borrowed, and was given an array of costumes, masks, clothing, and sports fanwear that reference Native American regalia, and stereotypes of Indigenous culture. Photographing each in an isolated black box format, Kearney summoned her own pained curiosity, while through this visual choice offered rebuke to how sacred artifacts from Indigenous cultures have been similarly displayed as trophies in many museums and cultural institutions. In Kearney’s photographs, the cheap materiality of most of the objects draws attention to exaggerated as