I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables — Kara Walker
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

— Kara Walker
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