Thequietquaintrelle - Ramblings Of A Recluse

Happy Birthday Kara Walker! 

Walker is well known for her provocative cut-paper silhouettes. In 2010, she installed the room-sized work Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart in our Marron Atrium. Listen to Walker speak about her creative process. 

[Details and full image of Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. 1994]

no offence but….. lets just all run through dark hallways, in long flowing clothes. let’s all just have dinner at candle light, write love letters and seal them with wax, give lovers a piece of our hair, kiss hands in greeting, pet cats and be gay

I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (via wishfulromancing)

yall its been real but if net neutrality gets booted there is no way in HELL i am ever paying to use tumblr

it doesnt feel like theres only 4 months of 2015 left

Three graces.