Ananke, in greek religion, is the personification of inevitability. Inevitable as the fascination I experience with every visit to large stores like the Home Depot. Looking for a color palette I came across the names of color samples and started playing with free associations. Among the different color samples I choose one named Shipwreck to paint the background of a wall were I was displaying notes, images and collected objects. Inevitable as the self-fulfilling prophecies of failure to materialize and visualize ideas and emotions and the failure to communicate them with others.

“Waves, curling edges, gulls calling. A sea serpent tosses the waters beating the ocean with an old vision. Waves breaking, thunder rolling, misfortune, and conflict. Fighting wrecks. Forgotten locations. Buried light and hidden meanings. It has been consumed, broken and sunk. The ocean is inside out and outside in. There is a skeleton made of concentric shells found at the bottom of the sea; fossils like an ocean that never dies. Waves are crashing, ships creaking, the pieces of the shipwreck welling up from the depths of the sea”.

After the end of World War II, scientific racism in theory and action was formally denounced, especially in UNESCO's early anti-racist statement "The biological fact of race and the myth of 'race' should be distinguished. For all practical social purposes 'race' is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth. The myth of 'race' has created an enormous amount of human and social damage. In recent years, it has taken a heavy toll in human lives, and caused untold suffering."