Show your Support for Abuse Victims
Posted by: TheForensicNurse in Education, Resources, Sexual Assaults, Statistics, tags: Art, Sexual Violence, Victim SupportThe ForensicNurse.com is helping spread the word about a wonderful new project called points with purpose.
David Ilan is an artist who came to fame serveral years ago by doing some artistry for the cast of the seinfeld show. In this new work called “points with purpose”, he is applying his unique artistic talents of pointillism drawing (a drawing simply made up of thousands and thousands of little dots instead of a more traditional line drawying.) and helping spread the message about victims of sexual assault.
The transformation of thousands of victims into a drawing of a survivor—a confident, proud and beautiful woman— is the key concept of the drawing. The people who are represented in the dots will be in various stages of the transformation. Some of the people may have already made the transformation and some may be struggling to move past their victimization. After all, each dot represents a real person with real emotions. But all the dots represent people who have a story of rape and sexual abuse in common. Hopefully, one day all the dots will represent only one type of person, the survivor.
This project is open to both female and male survivors of rape or sexual abuse and supporters of survivors.
Each Dot in the drawing represents a single victim, or project supporter.
If you are a survivor, your dot will be placed on the figure.
If you are a supporter, your dot will be placed on the sheet surrounding the figure.
When its finished the drawing will account for 100,000 “dots” or points, to reflect the 100,000 souls who have been touched by sexual violence.
If you would like to view the drawing, or see its progress, you can check out their website at:
http://www.pointswithpurpose.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=
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