In War Torn Countries:

As a trauma survivor myself who has been horrified by the War in the Ukraine and the subsequent violence against women; A historical bi-product of war including the raping and stealing of women and children by young, violent, rabid lost Russian males resulting in the deaths of many and the relocation of thousands of stolen women and children into what I would describe as pure hell!

Like many survivors of trauma, I am also deeply triggered by this heinous war instigated by the most nefarious, power starved and depraved threat to the West- our greater Democracy at large. There must be a Cease Fire now, period.

Sex trafficking has sadly gone on for years, though in this case with it’s brutal attachment to the theft of human beings in a war so fraught with power subversions it seems insoluble, unless we bend Putin at the knees until he breaks.

This is a very heavy series’s that I’ve been wanting to address through my work for a long time though like many of you I haven’t yet had any resolute way of articulating my feelings of powerlessness, not unlike the victims themselves.

The images are haunting as it’s an ongoing epidemic (separate from war) but still why and how are our young women and children still so powerless in today’s world? This horrific epidemic is as you know particularly prevalent in war torn countries and impoverished countries throughout Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and right here in our own backyards sadly. Though the images I’ve chosen to recreate using AI thus far are only of the victims of war torn Ukraine. As I expand the project I’ll be adding other countries in crisis such as Sudan.

Separate from war abductions of women, women and children are groomed and or manipulated into the epidemic often by someone close to them, often a sexual partner, at times a “caretaker” or just predators (either in the home or out in the streets) who actively stalk and often times abduct the women and children in broad daylight which for me is the scariest aspect of the epidemic!

These are the beloved children of loving parents (especially the war abductions), or they were made vulnerable victims by the hands of neglecting and abusing parents or caretakers.

There’s countless vulnerable homeless youth on the streets because they are actively seeking refuge from the abuse they are suffering at home. How did we get here? Why are we still here?

Here are a few images from the project coming up.