n the pandemic summer of 2021, a large-scale disabled , cocreated with nearly a hundred people, became a protector of an endangered ancient forest in Montana’s Yaak Valley, her wheels standing against the destruction of a proposed logging project called Black Ram. The artistic work came into being with the urgency of a fever dream, as if pulled . His death comes at the hand of Gilgameš, the defiant king who wishes to have his “name stamped on bricks” in immortal fame. Absent its protector, the forest is made a wasteland, the tallest cedar turned into a palace gate. Animacy is cleaved from the materiality of the earth, and H umbaba, the embodied consciousness of the forest, is destroyed to make an entrance for Western knowledge where sacred trees become standing timber.
