Silhouettes’ empty darkness gives them an other-worldly quality. It is no wonder they were often used to memorialise the dead
sought a fitting artwork to put on the cover. “The goal...was not just a resemblance but something that emotionally evokes her person, because Morrison is deeply complex,” said Françoise Mouly, the magazine’s art editor. He approached Kara Walker, an American artist celebrated for prints and silhouettes which, much like Morrison’s writing, address the country’s history of slavery and violence.
Several works by Martha Ann Honeywell, born in New England in 1786, are also on display. She was an astonishing artist: with no arms and only three toes on one of her feet, she would cut paper into extraordinarily intricate works using her mouth. Each silhouette took her only a few seconds, and she charged 25 cents apiece . Honeywell became hugely successful as a travelling silhouettist, demonstrating her skills for hours at a time.
But silhouettes’ empty darkness also gives them an otherworldly quality. There is a sense of absence, compounded by the fact that, in many cases, information about both sitter and cutter is lost to history. It is no wonder silhouettes were often used to memorialise the dead. One particularly moving piece is of a toddler who died in Saratoga, New York, at 14 months old .
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