The Fourth Wall as Sculpture

Rishauna Zumberg labors to move under the weight of blued branch, as the wife of a fossil fuel executive, in the performance of, “Blued Trees in NYC; The Sea Will Have The Last Word,” at the Anita Rogers Gallery October 30, 2024.

Blued Trees in WW III

Theater can be political and certainly all politics are theater. Politics and war are the most consequential theaters of all, sculpting civilizations and their stories for eons. The outcome of this election will also sculpt the land as nothing else.

In the past weeks since the American presidential election, the world has witnessed unparalleled political theater in which almost everyone has participated simultaneously as both performers and audience, even those Americans who chose not to vote.