Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her “earth-body” artwork. Being torn from her homeland (Cuba) at a young age, She utilises her body, in contact with the earth as a means to re-establish her connection to the land.

For Mendieta merging mother nature with art was a means of expressing the varying elements of her identity. This included; displacement as a Cuban refugee, oppression as a female, and a female artist.Through connecting with nature she was ‘returning to a natural world absent of manmade inequalities’.