Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta fused landscape and the female form (based on her own silhouette) to create emotionally resonant art that she called “earth-body works.” Furrows was created at RISD during a residency in the week of April 16, 1984. Her silhouette “drawing”-inscribed amid one ton of sod where the Museum’s Farago Wing now sits along Benefit Street-was eventually reabsorbed by the land through time and weather. Like most ephemeral land art from this period, it is now known only

through photography.