The first 8 days of The Scarlet Cord at ArtPrize 2014 have been exhausting but well worth it. In addition to currently being in the Top 25, visitor responses have proven the importance of confronting human trafficking and bringing hope and healing to survivors. Here are just a few highlights: Healing Tears Tears are words…
Kindhearted Women At Risk volunteers gave away thousands of red cord bracelets each day so far. As the volunteers tied the string bracelets on each wrist (or ankle), I realized that we were literally touching the lives of the ArtPrize visitors, making a personal connection between the healing message of The Scarlet Cord and…
The Scarlet Cord visitors continue the conversation at ArtPrize: A mom overwhelmed with emotion struggled to get these words out, “My adopted son was a sex toy night after night for his parents.” I thought, there is a lot of evil in this world, but here is a good woman who really cares for the…
Jessica Rowland of Women at Risk International and Pamela were interviewed by Andy Rent just prior to ArtPrize 2014 about The Scarlet Cord. Hear the short, six minute interview:
Branded, Livestock branding markers on canvas, 25½ x 25½ inches, 2014 Reproduction featured at Macy’s of Rivertown in Grandville Traffickers refer to the group of children they control as their “stable.” Within their stable, children are tattooed—marked like livestock—and herded into a mechanical and emotionless existence. However, if loving individuals help restore these children to…
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…
The Scarlet Cord: Crossing religious and social economic borders. Confronting child sex enslavement. Calling for compassionate action. The Scarlet Cord Audio Collage: Real voices of survivors and law enforcement by Shared Hope International. “Midnight Wars” by Kelsey Rottiers.