INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A Truman High School senior's art project caused controversy Friday.

Senior Amy Burrow affixed the words "love conquers all" to the front of a glass case filled with anti-gay posters designed to look like the ones used by protesters from Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church.

"I'm happy actually, because at least it involved thought," Burrow said. "At least it got them to stop and look at it."

She spent two weeks working on the project for her 3D art class. She was at the school until 10 p.m. Thursday, keeping the project a secret from students until Friday morning.

"People stop me in the hallways and tell me, 'Amazing job. Good job. I love it,' and then other people have said, 'I can't believe that's allowed. That's ridiculous,'" Burrow said.

Burrow had created other controversial work at school about abortion, smoking, and all of it, including Friday's project, was approved by the art teacher and the school principal, she said.

"I was just in shock of something being able to happen like this, that our principal would allow this to happen," said Chris Wilson, a student.

Nellie Mangold said she was happy that Burrow took the time to do the project.

Mangold said, "Just to see words like that on your school wall was just kind of shocking but good."