ArtPrize 2014: The Scarlet Cord – Lighting the Night…
…at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
The Scarlet Cord: Tethered
Tethered, Mixed media on plywood, 44 x 48 inches, 2014 (Approximately 700 nails and 600 feet of string) In India, a teenage prostitute’s baby cries while tethered to a post by a thin scarlet cord. No one is allowed to touch or talk to the baby. Her trafficker’s goal: create the perfect sex slave—a child…