Category: Anthropophagus
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On the Olive Tree, Harmony, and Subjugation
Olive Tree ii. Paros, Greece, 2010. 280x350mm, from enlarged 8×10 inch original negative. Platinum-palladium (1:1) print on Revere. Looking where I may walk, the horizon erupts. Symbol of peace, sprouting from wisdom and prestidigitation (how a goddess wins the people’s hearts), the olive tree also becomes humankind’s leeward desert. Xerxes burned the sacred olive tree…