Ana Mendieta

May 28, 2025

How to be precise

kurdish black tea with rose & cardamom from Murî ( rating: 3.6/5) not usually a fan of astringent black teas but i liked how deep its sapidity still was, righteously balanced with the floral. Slicing ginger root yesterday urged me to consider why the verb "gingerly" is derived from the plant. What does it mean exactly to take delicate action upon a subject? The online thesaurus provided "precisely" and "accordingly" as its most equitable synonyms, but I can't help but feel dissatisfied with its supposed parallels. To take action gingerly, yes, entails a certain precaution, but not necessarily a causation for accuracy. It means to move small, to move dearly, to take gentle care with the way you have chosen to perform such action, more so for the sake of feeling ...

i also made a video essay about her in more extensive detail on my Youtube channel: Shannon Kim so go check it out if u find this interesting!!!!! i spent a lot of time on it lol◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜

Ana Mendieta has become a symbol of the sexism and seedy injustices of the art world—and the groundbreaking nature of her work is frequently overshadowed by that history. Fusing art and life, Mendieta took risks, experimenting with performance and other unconventional mediums at a time when the market had no interest in them.

Her “earth-body” artworks famously used the natural world and her own body as powerful mediums of expression, interrogating humanity's relationship to the land and the cosmos. By placing the female body—the outline of her body—back into the elements of earth, she utilized the emerging feminist theories of binding the personal to the political.