Teacher: Wipoj Huse
School: Palm Harbor University High School, Clearwater, FL

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "The bag next to [the siblings] is a vital symbol of personal identity, since their family name ‘Mochida’ is engraved on it. Both siblings have an identification tag attached to them, which aims to dehumanize them and illustrate the bleakness of Japanese Internment camps. To balance the melancholy atmosphere, I decided to incorporate the report, Personal Justice Denied, right behind the younger portrait of Aiko, which aimed to display change and equality across time."

Read the artist's Impact Statement.

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