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Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, 'TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN OUR CARE' cotton / paint, made by Gillian MacFarland and the staff at the AIDS Reference Centre, Woden Valley Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, about 1990 Rectangula…
Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, 'TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN OUR CARE' cotton / paint, made by Gillian MacFarland and the staff at the AIDS Reference Centre, Woden Valley Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, about 1990 Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, black background. In the top centre of the panel are eleven candles, three of which are unlit. On the left side of the panel is the following handwritten inscription, in green paint, ' Our candles / may flicker in / the icy wind / and die.' On the right side of panel 'But the light / in our hearts / can never / be dimmed.' Below the candles in red paint 'THIS PANEL HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED IN OUR CARE'. In green paint below 'FROM THE STAFF AT THE AIDS REFERENCE CENTRE'. This quilt was made by Gillian MacFarland and the nursing and clerical staff at the AIDS Reference Centre, Woden Valley Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The receptionist at the centre, Susie Shearman, organised it so that every one contributed. The panel is referred to in Yardley, A & Langley,K., 'Unfolding: The Story of the Australian and New Zealand AIDS Quilt Projects', McPhee Gribble Publishers, Ringwood, Victoria, 1994, pp 76 -77. There it says that the poem given to Susie by one of the members of the Positive Support Group. Also in the Unfolding book, Gillian MacFarland talks of her experience and that the Quilt both in Australia and in America has shown a reminder of the human element of the epidemic. 'The love that you can't help but feel in the expressions that are made it absolutely amazing.' (p 77).She has continued to work in the area because ' whatever you give you still have back a hundred fold'. This quilt is in memory of those who have been in the care of the AIDS Reference Centre, Woden Valley Hospital, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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