An ecopoetry installation exploring the “law of the land”, environmental law history, and challenging the manipulation of environmental law for corporate exploitation, this piece offers a simple counter argument advocating the stewardship of land and the living. Responding to the recent 154,000 class-action lawsuits against RoundUp, a Monsanto/Bayer patented “weed-killer” and known carcinogen, Ana Anu’s installation presents as prize-fighting defendants : the dandelion and the grandmother.

 Working with myth, herbal remedies, and scientific research on the humble dandelion ( outcast as a “weed” by lawn lovers), Ana Anu celebrates the superstar herb as a caretaker of soil, feeder of bees, and a nurturer of human health. Anu’s work, which considers the role of grandmothers in restorative justice, imagines the grandmother to be akin to a dandelion; a quiet but radically resilient leader aware of its power to resource the land, and replenish the undernourished; irregardless of systemic erasure. Here is stamped an ancient truism: that the land is old like a grandmother, much older and much wiser than law, or lawns. 

All materials from this installation were graciously donated by NYC’s upcycler, FabScrap

Full Panel: $10,000, Individual Panel: $1,900

Materials: Installation, Legal Document Ink / Dandelion Ink, Upcycled Fabric

Ana Anu’s Instagram: @soopspoon