Hidden in Plain Sight

The backdrop is made of layers of tissue paper. Abstract shapes and space suggest a context: a community, streets, buildings, an ordinary house or flat, warehouses, hotels, boats on the water, and the sky.

One black shape is a house of flat. Perpetrators hide in plain sight in homes and other private spaces.

The heavy rope net is the reality of the networks that exist in a co-culture of perpetrators: traffickers, pimps and johns.

Infants, children, youth, girls and women suffer torture harms through being trafficked and prostituted.

Many are trapped, lost in the criminals nets. Many are missing or have been murdered. They have been tortured. Some have escaped.

The birds are spirits..some have escaped, many are not free. Many have dissociated to survive the unbearable. Many have their spirits tucked away deep inside the woman or child..some are the spirits of children and women who stay in our memories who were murdered or died.

Light shining through the translucent screen casts lights and shadows, like walking in our environment as witnesses to the violence suffered and with action for socio- legal support. It is our human right to be free of torture violence.