One Thousand Emotions: Ambera Wellmann @ Company Gallery, NYC

How the past sticks to us with such obstinacy! A dark age befell us once and never lifted, at least never for long. The first evil visionaries who enclosed the commons – the land and its fruits shared by a village – were the same who decided that the women doing something about it—righteous rioting against greed and hunger—were to also be enclosed: themselves, their bodies, their community, their productivity, and their children were to also become their visionary property.