If I happened upon such a scene Iâd be afraid to rescue her just because thatâs exactly the kind of thing some forest-dwelling band of psycho killers would set out as bait.
Just more evidence why it helps to learn about ropes, knots and your own capabilities before going off into the woods and doing something really, really stupid.
At least one British conservative MP has managed to kill himself doing something like this, so Darwin award or not, please think several times before trying a stunt like this without any experience. And then donât do it.
Iâd struggle to decide what to do. On one hand thereâs a person needing help, on the other hand the whole scene is really, really weird and screams âDonât get involvedâ. Thereâs trouble a-foot and no matter what, more will be had.
And if you really feel like doing it, donât go alone.
And regardless of whether you do it alone, bring a knife to cut the damn rope. Itâs a lot easier to get the rope off when youâre sitting on the ground.
Is the Avant-Gard part cutting the scene before we see how she gets free? I feel a sense of discomfort and unease not seeing her get free, so mission accomplished.
BTW itâs really hard or impossible to free a knot under tension (depending on the knot). She was on the right track when she got up on the tree branch. She shouldâve gotten all the way up and lay on the branch like a panther. That way there would be no tension on the rope and she couldâve used both hands to free her foot.
Wearing a knife belt probably compromises the ânakedâ aspect of the performance. Better to bring a friend whoâs brought a knife.
I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindlyâas blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.âAn ugly god pitifully dying in a tree!
âJohn Gardner, Grendel
In the Guardian article she says this wasnât intentional and the camera cut off, but recognized how uncomfortable it felt that way.
On the plus sideâŚ
Donât forget your multi tool!
Struggling with the concept of how hanging naked from a tree constitutes âperformance artâ.
But heyâŚmaybe Iâm just old and cranky
I wanted her to do this too, but that requires a fair bit of technique and strength, even at the best of times, let alone when youâre tied up, getting exhausted, and there are other branches in the way.
The whole thing was exhausting to watch. I have an knot in my stomach.
Or Ewoks.
Eeeeh. The more Tories that kill themselves in poorly thought-out stranglewank misadventures the better, say I.
This is why I keep a dive knife on my calf whenever I hang upside down by ropes in the woods while naked. Itâs a safety measure and it adds a touch of social commentary to my âartâ.
I wondered the same thing while watching, as well as if calling Adam was scripted for some sort of Tree of Knowledge symbolism.
Look up Wotan (Odin). (The Wikipedia article on Odin is spectacularly confusing, presumably his PR people arenât keeping an eye on it these days.)
Right, like I said. A forest-dwelling band of psycho killers.
She could have just left the knife on the groung, hidden among the grass but within arm reach. Or even on top of the branch.
