Susan Best, author of The Serial Spaces of Ana Mendieta, bases her thesis around a desire to reevaluate Mendieta’s work; she does this in an effort to defend Mendieta’s artworks against being labeled and perceived by both, feminist theorists and art critics as belonging to essentialism. In other words, there have been many critics who in trying to understand the intent of Mendieta’s work, have concluded that though perhaps unintended, Mendieta’s work ultimately emphasizes damaging perceptions about women and their relationship to nature- suggesting that Mendieta’s approach to her work was unawaringly pushed by colonialist and patriarchal beliefs . The author expresses in both, direct and indirect ways, that Mendieta’s work should not be seen