 Dear Neville,I am very pleased with the framing of my
quilt. We have hung same and are thrilled with its effect. You wanted to know a little about the
subject. ‘Harry’ Moore, as I know him, was a close friend of
my grandmother’s family in North Melbourne. There was a
possibility he was romantically involved with either my
grandmother or my grandaunt.
Harry was killed at Ploegsreet in 1916. There is a photograph of this area the day before he was
killed showing a very pleasant, heavily wooded scene untouched
by the war. He was laying communication wires for the
trenches when a shell exploded. He was not found. I have been working on a series of quilts
about the impact of both wars on my family. This quilt is part
of that series. I have used strip piecing as the technique
which allowed me to immerse him into the landscape of that
day. I have used the idiosyncrasies of the piecing technique
to mimic the stratified layers that you find in roadside
cuttings.  The chaos of the piecing has added to the dynamic of
the subject. I will attach a photo of ‘Harry’ which
belongs to the North Melbourne Library and is posted on Trove,
the National Library site. They very kindly allowed me to use
the photo to get myself started on this work.   I hope this is useful to you. Regards to yourself and Elwyn Louise Falk |
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