This flower was made after I had seen a reporter in Afghanistan standing in a pile of rubble and talking about something or other and there by his feet was this bright red flower. It was impossible to see what it was but it was, for me, a sumbol of hope in those dark times. It still is. The stitching in the background symbolises the barbed wire and barriers and all the destruction of wars. I dyed the wool background with native Australian plants and it was clamped with bulldog clips. The flower is sateen and the stem is noil silk.