WIP: Shame Offering 1 by Ketzirah

I’ve written before about the Sacrifice|Offering project, and not too long ago I wrote about searching for the image I would use as the central symbol.  I had a moment of inspiration and found the image recently.  After some work, I created it in an illustration program is this is the first work-in-progress.  I’m calling this the “shame offering” series, because it really is such a shame how wasteful Western culture has become.  We take too much for granted and too much is disposable with no thought to what happens to the waste.  The floss for this series, I’m making from plastic bags that my daily newspaper comes in.  I cannot tell you how much floss I was able to spin from a single bag – yards and yards.  On the right you see a “spindle” with both purple and white floss, both from the same plastic bag.  The photo is blurry, but I’ll post better ones soon.

I’m planning on selling each of these for $36 and then immediately investing the money on the micro-finance website Kiva.org.  Eventually, I’ll get the $36 — but it seems really right to “pay if forward” before I do.  It’s possible I might use some of it to fund amazing other artists on Kickstarter, but my plan is for these pieces to fund Kiva.