Using the historical, political and cultural weight of my body to inform landscape, Physical Law uses the presence of the black female body as both object and subject to tap into the often ignored double signifiers of trees and apples as symbols of racial violence via lynchings, while simultaneously invoking their ties to (E/e)nlightenment and the creation of "the black body". After stringing a net made of hair over a tree limb, I filled it with apples, and then tied off the end of the rope to my hair. Raising the net, I distanced my body from the tree, shaking the net periodically to release apples so that I could eat them. The apples function as extensions of the tree as both Strange Fruit and the weight of gravity.
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester
photo by Caitlyn Clester