Kara Walker's "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" of "A Subtlety". 2014

I'm reading "Flavor and Soul", a personal reflection by John Gennari (of UVM) on Italian America and its shared intersections with Black America. In it, John mentions an installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn created by performance artist Kara Walker in 2014. I went to the internet to look it up, found it immediately, and was amazed at the size of the installation Walker achieved. From the book...The installation drew "hundreds of thousands of visitors over a three-month period. Visitors inhaled the pungent aroma of burnt sugar and molasses still glazing the factory's colossal walls. Some solemnly contemplated the enormousness of Walker's concept, its evocation of the intertwined histories of the transatlantic slave trade, plantation labor, and food history; others snapped selfies against the backdrop of the sculpted woman...working in a cane field...full of the self-possession and sovereign repose of a Buddhist icon or a monumental Egyptian sphinx." And I remain amazed at how much there is to learn in this world, and so little time. Anyone with a remote interest in the interpenetration of Italian and African-American culture (food, music, sport) in this country in the 20th Century would find Gennari's writing wholly engaging.