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In the first two series articles, I discuss Deleuze’s Lines of Flight as counterplots to
“outdated representational frames” (Cotter, 2023, p. 30; Cotter, 2025, p. 16).
Jackie’s story invites alternative meanings that were excluded or unrecognized in
the old frame. Deleuze writes, “One’s always writing to bring something to life, to
free life from where it’s trapped…" (1995, p. 141). Ronald Bogue describes lines of
flight as a “… drama of imprisonment and escape…” to “… a new terrain” (2004, p.
15).
Rist’s environments help me see Deleuze’s concepts of lines of flight and
deterritorialization, and how our nomadic traversals liberate us from the singular
dictates of prescribed thought and behavior. I consider how clients inadvertently
maintain the codes of the very territories they’re trying to escape. Ana Mendieta's
performances offer another means of shifting identity within a story’s geography.
Imágen de Yágul
Ana Mendieta, 1973/2018.
Color photograph. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
Ana Mendieta (1948 - 1985) was a Cuban-American artist known for
performances, photographs, and videos that merge culture, the body, and the
land. She transforms the invisible into the tangible through an alchemy of art,
psychology, and the organic. Although Mendieta uses molding, burning, and
carving of her silhouette and body, her personal identity often seems to dissolve.
Breaking the Frame: Aesthetic Encounters with Narrative Practice – Part Three
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2026 Release, p. 25-51.
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