[digital illustration] [2023]

A man assaulted a 18-year-old Bulgarian girl: he had her arms, legs and chest cut with paper cutter, her nose broken, and all her hair cut with a clipper. The doctors made 400 stitches. The judge set the man free because what he did was ruled as a “minor injury”. The judge was a woman.

In this work, you can see 400 stitches - is this a “minor injury”? If the law says so, the law must be changed.

The thought of this story got my blood boil. The way we react to something like this shows in what kind of society we are living. The way the institutions that are responsible to find ways to prevent such acts to happen in the future react shows us what kind of future awaits us. Until we change something.

This work was exhibited at the Illustration Biennale 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

// digital illustration, Rotterdam, 2023

// license: CC4.0 - free to use by giving appropriate credit [the work was also created to support the protests in Bulgaria at that time, that is why it is made to be used in contexts connected to the violence against women] - write to me if you wish to get a high resolution version.
// remember to be mindful of the survivor’s trauma and shock when talking about this subject and sharing content