Ana Mendieta is a Cuban-American earth artist who does a lot of works involving the female body along with her earth projects. Sometimes she combines the two, whether that be her laying naked in a hole in the ground or her painted like bark against a wall made to camouflage.
Her other works are also somewhat violent, she has some pieces that are unrelated to her earth works that may show a body wrapped up in white but covered in blood or her drawing a blood looking paint on a wall with her hands. This could mean a lot of things but I think it comes down to her life as a child when her family was exiled from Cuba because her family opposed the dictatorship and I think that has a lot of influence with her work.
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