The Life Of Ana Mendieta, Told By Her Sister
Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post
March 2016
Ana Mendieta was interested in blood. In part, her fascination with the stuff stemmed from the violence against women she witnessed in her lifetime, beginning when a student was raped and murdered on her college campus. But the obsession also stemmed from her knowledge of rituals practiced in the Afro-Cuban religion Santería, in which chicken’s blood is offered as sacrifice. And, of course, the fact that the viscous fluid pulses through all of our veins, threading us together. […]