Teacher: Hope Ferns
School: Lincoln High School, Portland, OR

Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "These butterflies, while alluding to the ‘butterfly effect’, serve to emphasize the far-reaching nature of the positive impact that was borne from Kim Hak-Sun’s heroic work as a trailblazer for justice. By depicting these butterflies as carriers of hope, my goal was to symbolize the comfort women who were given the chance to ascend from the weight of their silence and oppression, due to her actions."

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