“Humans have continuously destroyed nature and species no less brutally than white [people] lynched Black [people] from tree branches. It is the same impulse towards domination and extinction.”-- Joyce J. Scott A pale-pink beaded figure hangs by her feet, her body open on the ground below. Her insides, an accumulation of broken glass and discarded things, pours forth from her abdomen and chest cavity. She personifies for Scott “the immature feelings we have as a young, slowly evolving species. The work addresses what we refuse to embrace because, if we accept the truth, then we must change or be proven wrong.” The artist varies Lynched Tree with each new installation. She first conceived of this work suspended within a centuries-old live oak on the campus of Tulane University in Louisiana for the exhibition Prospect.2 New Orleans. Over time, Scott has incorporated fragments of earlier installations—conferring beauty and value through the accumulation of salvaged materials.