Soldier's Heart

Soldier's Heart was an early PTSD term when it was noticed that returning soldiers had high heart rates. This pillow acts as a trauma trigger making Florence's(Lesley's grandmother) heart race. With its lumpy military buttons, red poppies of remembrance and black flowers of grief it offers her little support or comfort. A soldier wrote in a letter, 'Your heart is always somewhere else.' This would have been true for Florence as her fiancé's and then mother's love spanned thousands of kilometers while her family was away fighting a war.