Ana Mendieta Taught Me About Dispossession and Identity
The artist made it her life’s work to honor what was lost under colonization. Decades later, I tried to follow in her footsteps.
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7 min readSep 18, 2019
“Like the dead-seeming cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.” — Zora Neale Hurston
