Skins of Nature

Carol Montealegre

Skins of Nature is an endurance performance piece that takes place in the open fields of the Hudson Valley on Bard College, the unceded lands of the Munsee and the Mohican people. The performer worked with multiple square bales of hay, using her body to transform them and move them through the landscape producing a trace in time and space, creating an altar for all those who perished in anonymity. This intervention honors the spirits of the ones who died here under the whip of the white man.

Photo by Tania El Khoury