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    • Towards an Apocalypti(c)orazon: The Pocho Heart in Translation
    • Non-Linear Movements
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Ana Mendieta, Tree of Life (1977). From Traces: Ana Mendieta, by Stephanie Rosenthal, ed., Hayward Publishing, 2013., p. 101, 104-5.

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Tree of Life (1976)

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  • a human figure caked in mud and fused to a tree hanging over a river appears to sleep.
  • against the bark of a large tree
  • Ana Mendieta is covered in mud with both arms raised
  • elbows bent at ninety degrees
  • palms facing forward
  • suggesting camouflage. To the right
  • Two juxtaposed pictures. On the left
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