FORCEDFIForced FPregnancy=Enslavement © 2024

This work addresses the darkness surrounding what a Trump presidency would mean for women, more specifically for children who are the victims of sexual assault, more specifically rape and incest and forced to carry their pregnancies to term which at its heart is about the enslavement of women and children and what a dangerous country America will be for women and girls if Trump were to win the election which we cannot allow to happen. Period.

This is the hardest work I’ve ever made in my career because it’s an issue I care so very deeply about, a women’s right to choose, especially for girls and women who have had no choice when they were the victims of sexual assault. But the subtext, even the text equates to a modern day enslavement of women and a very dangerous one with its broader significance situating women and violated children at risk for human slavery and human trafficking and rendering them powerless. It’s such a painful trajectory that as I write this and use my art as a vehicle for advocacy the images are deeply upsetting. The sheer horror of this potentiality is astoundingly barbaric and America would not survive it, more specifically women and children would not survive it. Slavery kills the spirit and this is my greatest fear.

While this work is terribly controversial it is an eminent discussion on what may become of America for women and girls in only thirty days.

Due to the urgency of this potential I felt it was important to make this work. America is at its breaking point! Kamala Harris must win! We must help her to do so.

Camille Ross

October 4, 2024