Kara Walker PBS Response

     Kara Walker has always been an influential artist for me throughout my college career. Her signature silhouette narrative pieces are works of art that require much thought and planning while including little visual information.  Most of her works are life size to lure the audience in the piece and give them a deeper relationship with the narrative being presented.  I love how she mentions that her work is just an illusion of the past ages and how it actually balances with the present day annotation of black America as well as white American.  

     She says how she finds herself at battle with being the hereine while also killing the hero, relating to her numerous depictions of slave masters being overtaken by slaves or blacks in some fashion. She uses silhouettes so that viewer can't see the subjects directly which in turn excercises the mind into making the work a more imaginative and personal piece.

     Kara always had a sense of fear that she linked towards the south and how she always imagined how tough it must be for black America. In her work she almost uses this fear to create her story boards and includes a careful balance between fact and fiction. Her original works really capture powerful moments of joy, pain, sorrow, celebration, and agony.