Report action on the diatomic human/nature inheritance axis of creation/destruction with discourse centered on the individual in space and place. Images from newspapers were attached to the branches of a living tree and reported events marked by intolerance and violence toward the Other – genocide, starvation, forced exile, displacement and occupation. Texts installed around the room simultaneously relate to the images and to events in my own life since birth. Presenting and burning the images on a rock and mirror, smearing the ashes on my face, branding the dates into the bark of a living tree, branding the word ‘HOME’, packing the wounds with natural compounds recognized for their healing properties allow an ephemeral empathy with space and place. The body returns to kneel by the rock and mirror to wash the face of the ashes with water. In the final action the tree is planted in the earth to grow.

The appropriation of media images into an artwork implicates both the structures of the art world, and the responsibilities and conscience of both the artist and viewer. I wanted to find a way in which all present could deliberate a chronotope from these dates - their own personal reflections on learning of these events, and what they were doing at that time in disconnected space and place. Events such as those represented by the dates are presented to the vast majority of us as mediated images. We are removed and protected from the experience by facts of geography, politics, and culture, allowing the newspaper image to act as a kind of screening conscience.