These 5×7 copies collect stories from people who wanted to share their special connection with “One Set Free”. There are currently more than 50 uniquely coded copies in circulation. The first copy, ID: UOSF1L1, was issued in Hemet, CA in April of 2013. It then traveled to Costa Mesa, CA and on Sept. 7, 2013 became the first “One Set Free” blog to be returned . Follow this link to the story. Click here to purchase
On the back of each 5×7 is the following story with an invitation to blog:
“Join the story…
The painting you hold tells part of a story. It’s about the victims of human trafficking being set free from physical, mental and emotional bondage. It’s about the love that penetrates human despair, breaking the chains of oppression, bitterness or guilt, and setting the captives free. It’s about hope molding beauty from the shards of a broken life. The moment you acquired this picture you also became part of its story. And it became part of yours. Your lives have converged and together you make a new life, embodied in the picture you now hold. Tell us the story. How did you get the picture? How does it effect you? What do you see in it? What do you add to it? Where will you take it? You now share a common history; tell us your part. The future of this little picture is in your hands, but its past belongs to someone else. Where did it come from? Whose lives has it touched? The number* in the box above identifies the origin of the picture you hold, to learn of its history go to rickstillartist.com. To upload your part of its story, go to rickstillartist.com/blogstory (use number in the box for ID); then send the picture on to wherever you think it belongs. Tell us what you did with the picture and keep us posted as your part of its story continues to unfold…”.
*If the box is empty, leave it blank. We’ll email you the ID after your story is published.