Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality. Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received Focusing on painting and printmaking in college; she received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker was included in the 1997 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The think image i choose is about a child who is standing for her right and marching against other people. i think walker is representing herself in front of others at her childhood. This also reminds me that this child might be a slave working under someone else from her small age. She is holding a stick wrapped around with a cloth, which might represent her country or her race. However it might also be that the child has to go far to fetch the water from the lake or pound, describing her daily struggles.

I personally liked her work because it's a bit similar to my life as a child" standing alone for your safety or securement without being dependent on anyone else. Most of her works speaks strongly through her art work, as they have such a powerfully emotional impact on the viewers. The technique walker used to create this art piece is on a silhouette, walker draws her images with a greasy white pencil on a large piece of black paper, which then she cuts out with an x-acto knife. As she composes her images, she thinks in reverse, in a way, because she needs to flip the silhouettes over after she cuts them. The images are then stick on to paper, canvas, wood or directly to the girl personally liked her work because it's a bit similar to my life as a child" standing alone for your safety into wall with wax.