A Brazilian artist is challenging the boundaries of race and cultural identity by matching human skin tones to the Pantone colour chart.
While finding exactly the right shade of grey to paint your bedroom wall can be a painstaking affair, Angelika Dass is attempting to 'record and catalog all possible human skin tones' using the same kinds of samples you may have once picked up at the home improvement store.
Humanae, as the project has been named by its creator, is a 'chromatic inventory' she writes on her Tumblr site, that sheds light on race 'beyond the borders of our codes'.
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