text: Glad to see Kara Walker in the web pages of NCR (and that comments on an art piece aren't CLOSED for a change).
  
  <<The work, however, raises many more questions than it answers. >>
  
  That's what art is supposed to do. Art is often ambiguous. Good wall text conveys essential points but allows room for interpretation.
  
  Obviously the Bible was used both to justify slavery and call for its abolition. Perhaps Walker was alluding to the Catholic Church's fraught history with slavery, as the use of imagery from the Eternal City would suggest.