Radio Interview with Andy Rent
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:
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The Scarlet Cord: Branded
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…
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…
The Scarlet Cord Audio Collage
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.
The Scarlet Cord: The Story
Wounded, Multi media on canvas, 58 x 96 inches, 2014 Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and forgotten by everybody…that is a much greater hunger. Mother Theresa A thin red cord holds Jenny captive. The last time Jenny saw her dad she was seven. Divorce emptied her. Her cries—no one hears, no one answers. An older…
Pamela’s ArtPrize 2014: The Scarlet Cord
The Scarlet Cord Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum September 24 through October 12, 2014 As visitors step inside a 40-foot storage container filled with thirty doors, they enter a secret world. This dark world crosses religious and social economic borders to sell our children for sex. A twisting scarlet cord depicts the trauma bond that…