A SCULPTURE symbolising the modern slavery of Third World debt will be unveiled at Blackburn Cathedral tomorrow.
Currently on tour round the country "The Jubilee Figure" is constructed out of 4,000 separate chain links welded together to create a human form standing six feet high.
Weighing in at 140 kilos the sculpture was commissioned by Christian Aid as part of the international Jubilee 2000 campaign to eradicate Third World debt.
It was designed and created by two lecturers in sculpture at Staffordshire University, Neil Powell and Keith Weston.
Ben Humphries, area co-ordinator for Christian Aid in Lancashire, said the sculpture used the symbolism of chains to capture an idea of debt as modern age slavery with a figure reaching out for the branches of a tree laden with fruit.
He said: "The figure in chains is reaching out for the fruits of freedom."
"The Jubilee Figure" has been on tour round the country since last summer, and will leave Blackburn on April 18 for Liverpool.
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