Mother

Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996, cut paper, watercolor, and graphite on canvas, 69½ x 66”. All images courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

Shot from Beloved (1998 film) via carolinekaypicart.com

1: not “Saints”/“Crazy, loony, pitiful women” (Walker, 401); 2: one “moving to music yet unwritten,” “waiting”; 3: dreamers, “the mule of the world," “Artists… Creators” (Walker, 402); 4: “somewhere between monsters and mutual implication” (Tuck and Ree, 649)**

Example of use: “I love my mother but I know she killed one of her own daughters” (Morrison, 205)

**(Monster: someone who is wronged and seeks justice; Mutual Implication: how the colonized and the colonizer “leak” into each other’s lives” (Tuck and Ree, 649)