The background was created with Montana spray paints, acrylics, and watercolors applied with various techniques.
The girl is spray painted in the foreground using detailed, hand-cut stencils. I wanted the background to show through the figure in places, so I created a process using textured screens to vary the translucency of the grays. These grays are actually all the same color, but thanks to the screening process, they appear as different shades.
2018 | Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Pitt Community College
Victims of human trafficking often feel shame from what they were forced to do by other people. It's up to us to come along beside them and lift them up and help them love themselves again.
This piece symbolizes bringing victims out of the darkness of shame (the dark figure) and back into the light (the bright background).
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