Tree of Consumption

Dana Claxton uses lowgrade video equipment to create degraded images that correlate the treatment of the earth with the treatment of womens bodies A figure stands enmeshed in cutting barbed wire among ravaged forests and chopped tree stumps Grainy blackandwhite images have been electronically ripped cut and torn in postproduction while repeated images of the artists openmouth scream silently against a volatile red sky A video work from the early 1990s continues to resonate in our contemporary momentand with decades of missing and murdered Indigenous women across exploited lands