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.
In the middle of the night I was walking home after finishing my routine. Late hours, dark streets as the sun sets. A streetlight was lit between the dark streets, and the streetlight lit up a beautiful cherry blossom tree right in front of it. Among the cherry blossoms shining beautifully by the light, the bright back side of a beautiful society lit up.
And suddenly, a sense of fear attacked me. A bright society is open for anyone to see, but this is because I realized that there is a tremendous darkness hidden inside and that darkness is always completely hidden in the corners of the world.
Even at this moment, they bloom beautifully like those cherry blossoms, and many people who will live in the world are dying from human trafficking.
Now is the time to shine a light on the dark side of society and face the truth.
This painting is dedicated to those who have not been able to bloom today and have died due to human trafficking.
Barcodes symbolize money. People who are drawn in ink while hanging from bar code lines mean victims of human trafficking. The victims under surveillance are used as tools for human traffickers to make money without freedom. Black means the darkness of human trafficking.
“trafficking in persons” means recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving persons through the threat or use of violence for the purpose of exploitation, or through other forms of coercion, through abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or abuse of vulnerable situations, or through the granting of remuneration or benefits to obtain the consent of a person who has control over another person.
Exploitation should at least include the use of the prostitution of others for exploitation or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or removal of organs.
Regardless of whether the victim of human trafficking agrees or not, whether the perpetrator of human trafficking is involved in the mode of human trafficking as defined in paragraph 1 shall not exclude the application of the preceding paragraph.
In the process of recruitment, transport, transfer, concealment and reception, individuals who are exploited are children and shall be regarded as children whose victims of human trafficking are under the age of 18, even if they are not involved in the manner provided for in paragraph 1.
I believe that people are rooted in their homelands just like trees are, trees and forests are symbolizing their ancestors here. Thus, human trafficking is like tearing them off their roots, torturing both physically and psychologically somehow. Human trafficking is a modern day slavery and must be prevented at all costs.
It is not a commodity as the theme of the poster design is to call people’s attention to the social problem of human trafficking. Families of trafficked persons are often torn apart and plunged into misery as a result. The word it is used to express that victims lose their human rights and are reduced to commodities. The poster mainly depicts the silhouette of a child sobbing with his face covered.
The child’s head are pasted with the barcode symbolizing the commodity and a corner of the barcode forms a tear of the child.The contrast of black and red colors reflects the white tear mark, which expresses the suffering of the trafficked children, triggers the awakening of human sympathy and conscience and so as to eliminate the root of the evil of human trafficking.