A few days ago, on January 11th, we recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness day. This mixed media sculpture is one I created for a Destiny Rescue charity event a few years ago. Destiny Rescue is an organization that works to rescue children out of sexual slavery around the world and also provides aftercare and vocational programs.
I was challenged to create a sculpture that would represent the 1,000 rescues Destiny Rescue had accomplished so far that year, but at the time of the event, the total rescues were over 1100. I chose to represent the rescues through 1,000 butterflies that had escaped a rusty cage. The cage contained the problems keeping children enslaved, symbolized by greed (a gold snake with world money scales and symbols) and lust (venus fly traps with eyes). The butterfly trapped in the web symbolizes the thousands still left to rescue.Click the link below to learn more.
https://www.destinyrescue.org/us/
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