Each hand in this piece is hand-embroidered. I started by sketching many different hands of children and stitching them onto up-cycled fabric. I gathered fabric tags, signifying companies that utilize child labor. By placing the price tags on their arms, I attempt to demonstrate how companies view the lives of these children. Children are used as tools to attain and increase profits through low-wage labor. Purposefully, I did not include the faces and expressions of the children and instead focused on the hands forced to complete the work. Productivity, or what these hands create, is more valued than the lives or emotions of these young workers.
