NORTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY FOUNDATION 06/2014
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Inner Courtyard (2008)
"There Should Be No More Wars: A Bomb" (2008)Pressed flower art is created with pressed and dried flowers and leaves. The late Ms. Shim Dal-yeon was born in 1927 in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang Province. In around 1940, she was about twelve or thirteen years old and picking vegetables when she was abducted by the Japanese military and taken to the 'comfort station' in Taiwan. She came back to Korea in around 1945, and registered herself as a 'victim of military sexual slavery by Japan' in 1993. From then on, she started participating in various activities to testify about her experience. In 2005, to heal the trauma of war, she took a pressed flower art class and started working on her own works, earning the nickname 'Flower Lady.' Before passing away in 2010, she had published two volumes of her works. While some of them manifested her pain, many of them beautifully expressed her hope for peace.
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