Illegal Organ Trafficking | China
Most of the people who are illegally trafficked end up having their organs removed, which is inhuman. I’m satirizing this illegal act of trampling on life at will.
Most of the people who are illegally trafficked end up having their organs removed, which is inhuman. I’m satirizing this illegal act of trampling on life at will.
I tried to express the problem of human trafficking on the poster.
This is my last poster for this contest. When I started to think about this contest, there were only ”chains” and ”wings” on my mind. So I thought human trafficking take freedom from people. People should live with freedom. They shouldn’t be captured or in chains. And I thought ”Birds cant live without their wings too. Because its their freedom”
In the end I created this image. A bird breaking the chains with its beak. And flying away.
If you can’t think a bird without its wings, you can’t think a human without its freedom neither.
I painted a picture of an adult woman walking with her ankle suddenly being grabbed by a hand deep in the shadows. I hope this poster can remind everyone that human trafficking is not only happening in the news, but also in life.
Barcodes represent both goods and cages, the figures tied to ropes represent victims who have lost their freedom as a result of human trafficking.
From the perspective of the victim and the offender, this series of works expresses two states of sadness and cruelty in blue and red. To hide the pain on the faces of trafficked persons and the distorted faces of the perpetrators to satisfy their selfish desires, I hope that people can find sympathy in the poster, which aims to arouse people’s attention to human trafficking. Maybe one day, this will happen to us.
The narrative of this piece was to make a scene that was as uplifting and full of hope as possible, considering the very serious subject matter. Jamaica will always be a historically known country of freedom and liberation and so for this reason the narrative is one of this liberation. I wanted to include many elements that were directly related to Jamaican culture as visual metaphors for Jamaica itself and so the the national bird of Jamaica(Swallow-Tail Hummingbird) is used to be representative of the victims of trafficking. The Jamaican jungle, with its indigenous flowers are the Jamaican heart as they reach out, with extended arm-like vines pulling and breaking the cage open, taking the power away from the greyed out (shadowed) figures of oppression. Those without color. Without a soul.
In this poster, the lion holding two children resembles both a protecting guardian and a guide who gives us the message to become concerned about fake people and human trafficking. The fox wearing a human face mask resembles the fake people and the shadow of the fox connotates the song “Shadow After Dark”. The dreadlocks hairstyle of this lion has symbolized the Reggae musicians as they are the “Messengers”. And the Rastafarian color scheme is used here to shake up Pan-Africanism in Africans’ hearts as the African counties are suffering more in this case.