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The impetus for my working with silhouettes came from looking at the surface of things: black, “negro” images and objects. The paper cuts in my work are all surface. Having absorbed and accepted twentieth-century modes of communicating blackness, I’m concerned with their seeming superficiality; if that weren’t such a concern for me, I wouldn’t constantly be searching for another way toward art.

Kara Walker | Interview with Bob Nickas in ArtForum [Oct, 2004]

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