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The series was also inspired by a trip to First World War graves in France, where his grandfather and many other young Australian men died in action. \r\n\r\nIn each print Arnold depicts one of the component parts from a suit of armour against a ground of synthetic lace. The armour is overlaid with a traditional Provencal textile design that goes back centuries but is still found on today’s French market stalls. The sense of both strength and vulnerability evoked by the armour plays against the associations of the lace and the traditional pattern: delicacy but ‘cheapness’, implicit expendability and working-class origins. The images bring together a variety of themes including war, violence, the fragility of the male body, the use of young working-class men as gun fodder in the war, and collective memory.","physicalDescription":"Etching in yellow and black as wide as the sheet on which printed but with margins at top and bottom. Image of the left shoulder piece of a suit of armour, decorated with a small oval star-like pattern and set against a lacy background on the left and on the right of plate a simple woven line pattern. 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