Woman as Tree Tree as Woman
Hettie Judah, The Plant
December 2018
As children in Cuba, Ana Mendieta’s sister Raquelín remembered their cousin Elvirita singing a song about a girl who carved her name into the trunk of a tree. She and her cousins would take on the roles in the story. Ana always played the little girl with the knife: her cousin, with outstretched arms, the tree in whose trunk she would carve her name. […]