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"lucretia" refers to the story of the rape of lucretia, a roman noblewoman, whose suicide after her rape by a prince galvanized the formation of the roman republic. she has become a symbol of the abuses of male power. a similar act of abuse of power was inflicted on this piece by someone with a chainsaw as it lay outside the studio. plunge cuts were made into side of the tree followed by an additional cut into the crotch of the tree as an act of male dominance and desecration. rather than try to fill the wounds to hide the violence, this piece exposes and expresses the ugliness of the act. ecofeminist maintain that this male form of power though violence over women is the same pattern of power over nature.