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“SPIKED!” is a sculptural work that alludes to an ecofetish ravishment fantasy. It ties in elements of ecotage, consensual-non-consent and anarchist direct action. The basis for this fantasy are the ‘tree spiking’ interventions enacted by environmental activists, driving large metal spikes into trees marking them with posters warning of the danger to deter logging companies from cutting them down. If a logger still cuts a spiked tree they consent to the possibility of damaging themself or their saw. Sacred Sadism imagines an inverted power and consent scenario where the tree is no longer a passive victim of the lumberjack’s saw or activists’ spike, but has devised its own form of protection by growing menacing, animate, penetrative spikes of its own. This ravishment fantasy draws from popular vine and tentacle hentai pornography in which an unsuspecting passerby becomes ensnared in the tree’s lustful branches and vines. The tree, however, has chosen to post a sign that warns of its desires and attempts to gain consent through the vague pronouncement of agreement by proximity. This inversion of power calls into question the grey areas present in certain types of BDSM play, the concept of informed consent and  paternalistic  human intervention on natural environments and organisms.