The East Side is white cotton machine quilted onto polyester wadding in the size and shape of ‘concrete blocks’. Though I appreciate that The Wall was not made of concrete building blocks per se, this is the popular iconic international vision of The Berlin Wall as promulgated by the posters for “Pink Floyd The Wall” and “The Wall” concert project in Berlin in the nineties. The quilting is in red thread, symbolising the blood that was shed by those who died in an effort to escape over or through The Wall. In some places, the end of threads used to quilt the East side are joined to threads quilting The West, symbolising the links between both sides of the city, between communities and families and individuals, which, despite all the efforts of the Communist regime, could not be broken. The stitching is in some parts over-sprayed in white fabric paint, to symbolise the ‘whiteness’ of The Wall. At the base, are two life-size figures of a man and a woman in postures of flight, falling and despair, executed in grey and black transparent voile machine appliqued onto the ‘blocks’. The silhouettes signify the shades and shadows of those who died on and at The Wall and those who lived under it.