Bamboo Forest

In Bamboo Forest, the letters comprising Henry J. Hyde’s remarks at the 1993 congressional debate, which unwittingly revealed the intersections of women’s reproductive rights with blatant class discrimination. These letters continually disassemble and reassemble to form a series of short texts featuring premodern superstitious beliefs and recipes for contraception and abortion, collected from historical and scholarly texts.

The letters are constantly swept around the screen as if trapped in a windy forest that can’t help but echo and disclose these secrets, despite systemic and historical suppression of such knowledge.