GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — There are girls as young as 11 years old being forced into a frightening life of human trafficking, and that reality sparked artwork to garner more help.
Cassandra Burgess’ three-dimensional ArtPrize Nine entry, Fenced In, is a Final 20 piece inside the main floor of The B.O.B. It features a young girls with innocently piercing eyes, gazing through a metal fence. The girl’s hand is three dimensional and clasps the fence.
“That’s why the hand is separated,” Burgess explained to 24 Hour News 8, “because you feel like you’re helping hand is disconnected.”
It’s how Burgess said she felt when she learned of a blossoming human trafficking issue in the California area.
“My safety bubble kind of popped,” she said.
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