Myrna Balk Sculptor and Multimedia Artist

MYRNA BALK
Sculptor and Multimedia Artist

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Two-Dimensional

Steamroller Print
Woman in Blue
Pregnant Woman
Survivor
Anguished
After the Night
Group of Girls
Reflections
Gate To
Pimp With Bag of Girls
Give It Back
The Buyers
Waiting for the Prey
Captive Prey
Kamala's Drawing
Send Them Home to Die
Brothel in Mumbi
Camp With Barbed Wire
Flowers Reincarnation
Kanchi and Her Daughters
Maya, Dedicated to her Five Daughters Education
Meeting of Micro-Finance Group
Gita Cooking
Kathmandu Nepal Earthquake, 2009
Pregnant Women
Modern Day Lynching
Remembering Yosemite National Park
Ladders to Escape

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Etching/Aquatint
5" x 7.5"

One is Too Many: a series on sex trafficking.
Drawing and Story by Kumi (below)
Art by a Nepali Women who had been trafficked.
Drawing by Kumi

Kumi told Myrna about her drawing:
"The parents are depressed because a broker took their child away from them. It shows a place where girls are taken and given cruel treatment. Letters are drawn on the right side of the picture because now the girl is learning to read."

This 20-year-old woman explained that she had no chance to go to school. She wants to study but she thinks she is too old. She loves the experience of learning to read. In 1996, Kuml was brought back to Nepal from India, where she was a held captive in a brothel.

She immediately returned home, but was ostracized by her village. She then went to ABC Nepal, an NGO that shelters former sex slaves. ABC Nepal is working to educate the village, in the hope that they will take herback.

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