FREE | China
The hands in the poster form a bird yearning for freedom, holding a note. The black line is the symbol of money, and the drum sticks cut with the black line representing the bondage, signifying resistance to human trafficking.
The hands in the poster form a bird yearning for freedom, holding a note. The black line is the symbol of money, and the drum sticks cut with the black line representing the bondage, signifying resistance to human trafficking.
Human trafficking is like a claw machine that fills with happy hearts and souls. These lovely hearts get picked and became someone’s prize. All the “lucky hearts” being picked and turned into broken hearts. The moment a lucky one being picked, it turns into a dead heart, as it is contaminated and hurt by the darkness. This kind of inhumane behavior should be stopped immediately.
The topic of human trafficking can be saddening and serious. This is something I did not want to neglect to portray, but I also wanted to show that there are solutions to this problem. The idea of “hope is what you bring” derives from the song Shadows After Dark, and I interpreted it as people having the ability to bring light to a dark situation. If people choose to reach out and help in any way they can, they can end up helping someone who is in need or those who might come face-to-face with this issue someday.
The poster presents the problem of Buying People, comparing this process to the process of buying an item in an online store. Though the whole world condemns such acts, it is still present and seems to be getting simpler in some places. The poster shows that trafficking in human beings is as simple and obvious for some as buying a dress or shoes.
Convert eyebrows and eyes to barcodes. Think that people should not be a commodity.
THEY STEAL US, THEY STOLE US, DON’T STEAL US FREEDOM ANY MORE.
What I want to show in this work is that people do human trafficking for money, so I use the action of tearing off the banknotes to stop this behavior.
Room 2103, Unit 1, Building B, Hongjun No.1, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
Silence has been used as a tool to control trafficked women.
They can’t use their voice to be free. You can be their voice.
Break the silence.