Better Blackness

December 18, 2012

Make Art Instead of Atrocities: Kara Walker’s Perspective

Filed under: Visual — betterblackness @ 6:44 pm
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The massacres in Newtown, CT, reminded me of this short interview from 2005 with Kara Walker in which she acknowledges that making art about atrocities is preferable to actually committing them. It may even help people with dangerous imaginations flush those evil thoughts out of their system.

Make art, not murder.

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