Tar Beach

This picture has been hanging, framed in my hallway for years. I’m not quite sure where I got it from, but I know the original is in the Guggenheim in New York City. I love it.
I was so excited when a children’s book came into the oxfam shop, called Tar Beach,  with this picture on the cover. The author is Faith Ringold, and it turns out she also created the picture, in the form of a quilt. The words of the book are shown, in tiny writing on the ends of the quilt. 
The image is autobiographical - the author as a child with her parents and little brother, having happy times/holidays on the roof of their building, by the George Washington Bridge, in Washington Heights. It’s about making the most of what you have, I think. But the girl can also fly, and believes through flight she can grasp freedom and power. You can see her above the bridge.