This act of anthopophagy, of man eating man, has significant roots in the history of modern art. In Brazil in 1928, the writer Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954) penned the influential Anthopophagite Manifesto, a text that urged Brazilian artists to take what they had learned from their European teachers and ingest it to then subvert these teachings in the service of creating a new national art. In this work, the performance artist, Clifford Owens, attempts to eat a small white head, yet he finds it impossible to do so. The impossibility of ingesting the head suggests the difficulties represented by race relations in contemporary society, and it is a metaphor for the power relations formed in the wake of the consumption of culture that crosses racial and ethnic boundaries. While dominant cultures benefit from ingesting other cultures and ideas, the reverse rarely holds true. I wanted to consider the power dynamics involved in the acts of consumption and appropriation.