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That
Night
1994
31" x
30"
Hiroshima
Series
This quilt is the first in the Hiroshima
series. I had made an image of the moon on a murky night and constructed a
quilt top. My daughter
thought it was too dark and dull. I
boldly cut it apart, added bright colors, and sewed it together with
angles that make it look unstable. As
soon as I looked at the image I realized it could symbolize the smoke,
fires, and destruction of that first terrible night in Hiroshima. The next
day when I showed the unfinished quilt to a group of people, someone saw
the shadow of a girl. Later I
found this poem:
Strength
to turn a body in a girl who looks for her mother
Shibata
Moriyo
Poetry
from The Atomic Bomb Voices from Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, edited
by Kyoko and Mark Selden
Art
Quilts by Barbara Moll
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