This response to David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous (page 137-153) is relating to the section on page 137, "Or, more specifically, how did civilized humankind lose all sense of reciprocity and relationship with the animate natural world, that rapport that so influences (and limits) the activities of most indigenous, tribal peoples?"
When I read this section, immediately I thought of the DAPL issue. From day one, it seems white people have been screwing over natives. As said in Disney's Pocahontas, "These white people are dangerous."
For this response, I took one of my photos from when I was in Portugal of Padrao dos Descobrimentos as it was a monument in celebration and commemoration of discovering and claiming that land.
The monument is a huge symbol for claiming land, which means whoever is there is forced to accept the rule or be pushed out, punished, jailed, killed, all that fun stuff.
The DAPL is punishing natives for no reason by threatening their water supply, essentially pushing them out of the very little land we "allowed" them to have, desecrating their graves and land in the process.
I layered photos to create this piece. There is a filter layer on top of that cracked, dry land, free of water and life. The picture over that is of the protests going on because of DAPL (credits to Kevin Scott Cuevas of the Odyssey and Jeremiah Jones of Countercurrent News).
I wanted to overshadow the vision of victory with the real costs of these conquers.
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