A Note from the Artist...

Flying over the Cairns region in Far North Queensland, I love the way the rivers snake through the land. I love the deep colour of the red earth in the ground far below. It reminds me of the line in the song The Great Southland, for it truly is ‘a land of red dust plains’.

Looking at the land from the sky, I can imagine the planet earth in my mind as seen from way out in space. It heightens the responsibility that we all have, a global responsibility to combat issues of injustice in not only the land we live but on a global front.

Lately it seems, there are references to human trafficking and modern slavery everywhere I look. It is estimated that between 20-40 million people are subject to forms of modern slavery around the world. That figure is quite astounding.

It can be easy to think that trafficking happens in other places around the globe. While in part that is true, yet Australia is primarily a destination country for people trafficked from Asia, particularly Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.

There are more slaves today than at any point in history - more than 70 percent are female, many of these being young women and girls.

God uses our prayers, our words and our actions to accomplish the works desperately needed, to ensure everyone has the right to live justly in our world.

We will never change the world by standing still in response to God’s calling to fight injustice, he will give all that is needed to be an agent of change. Representing Jesus in a world of hurting people that desperately need to see His love.

 

MICAH 6:8
Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.

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About the Artwork...

Photography

NIKON D60
Nikkor 18-55mm ISO 100
1/250 sec
f/8.0

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About the Artist...

Michelle Townend

Camberwell, Melbourne, VIC