"She seemed to want to fuse with the earth. In contrast to some of her male contemporaries, who were also working directly with nature, Mendieta did not aggressively shape or add to her environment. Instead, she united with what was there - water, earth, fire. In one early filmed performance, she lay in a flowing creek until her body almost became part of the stream bed. In other pieces, she printed her shape onto the ground, sometimes so subtly that you could miss the silhouette if you didn't know where to look. She became a flower bed, and she drew her outline in fire. Often, her body had a somewhat ungainly or forgetful aspect, as if the Western nude no longer found it necessary to strike a pose."

From New York Magazine



From Book Of Joe