Ananke

Installation with paint, found materials, notes, and archival fragments

Ananke, named after the Greek personification of inevitability, explores the haunting pull of consumer environments, emotional failure, and the cyclical struggle to make meaning visible. The work was initiated through a series of visits to large retail stores like Home Depot—spaces where the search for utility becomes entangled with personal projection and aesthetic desire.

While selecting a color palette, I became fascinated by the names of paint samples. One, titled Shipwreck, became the backdrop for a wall installation of notes, images, and collected objects. The installation reflects a state of emotional disarray: the self-fulfilling prophecies of creative blockage, the failure to materialize or communicate ideas, and the longing for forms that never fully arrive.

A text fragment composed for the piece evokes a mythical and turbulent sea:

“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...
Forgotten locations. Buried light and hidden meanings...
Fossils like an ocean that never dies.”

In this watery world, meaning is submerged, broken, and reassembled—circulating like memory in the deep. Ananke becomes a space where personal history, cultural myth, and the detritus of consumer life collide.

Ananke navigates inevitability not as fate, but as the cyclical confrontation with failure, longing, and the quiet violence embedded in everyday forms.