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 landscape looks ordinary to an observer but is anything but.

The heavy rope net is the reality of the criminal 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, caught in the criminals’ nets. Many are missing or have been murdered. They have been tortured. Some have escaped.

The birds represent free spirits of women and girls, children, infants, teenagers flying to freedom.

Some torture victimised escape. Many have dissociated to survive the unbearable, their freedom spirits and/or victimisation truth stories flying high above the torturers and their criminal nets.

Some have free spirits tucked away deep inside. Some are the spirits of infants, children and women 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.