la morale de l'histoire draws inspiration from Aesop's fable "The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea" to provocatively question the responsibility of each actor involved in the migrant crisis.  In the fable, a shipwrecked man wrongfully blamed the sea for his troubles. The sea, in turn, asserted that the wind was the true culprit, emphasizing the moral lesson that one should be careful to place his blame on the right person.

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Having spent time on the Island of Lesbos in the summer of 2018 immersed in its intricate community—a "sea" of locals, tourists, migrants, and European border patrols— the artist found that Aesop's fable strongly resonated with her personal experience. In her attempt to "blame the wind" and not "the sea", she decided to enumerate, in a monotonous voice, the daily wind report of the month of July 2018 she spent there.

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"A shipwrecked man, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep. After a while he awoke, and looking upon the Sea, loaded it with reproaches. He argued that it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed them. The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”

Aesop, Fables

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