Kara Walker

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. She is perhaps best known for her black on white paper silhouette displays which often impacted on the history of slavery of blacks in the western world. Walker's displays are often placed directly onto the walls of galleries, creating a theatrical space in which her cut-paper characters.

 I think this image is about two African woman who may be slaves and master who is three times as small as them. You can see when looking at this picture and relating it to the way white people and black people get judged. If they were slaves shouldn't the small man be bigger showing he has power and how back in the days white people used to be in control. Also you can instantly tell the small man is white due to the way people have been taught about slavery in different cultures or the relation it has between white and black people. The woman on the left may be holding a voodoo doll for either a sense of courage or spirit, the woman on the right holding a small man may be talking to or it could be her master.

My opinion on this is that as soon as you look at the image there are so many things that come across in your mind the thoughts and messages behind this picture. I found it really clever the way Kara Walker decided to portray the message in a way which would make people think about slavery; the African countries; what happened in the past between the black people and white people. The art technique is based around symmetry so she may have drawn one of the African woman on folded card cut it out to make two of them then cut out the objects or people they are holding and also the little man, stuck it together to form symmetry.