Overcoat (2000)

Heather Belcher has taken inspiration from a passage in Louis de Berniéres' WW2 novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994) when the hero complains: 'I hate my entire uniform. The threads rotted and it fell apart. The cloth hardened like cardboard, and stiffened into adamantine inflexibility. It garnered the cold like a refrigerator and forced it into my flesh. It grew hardier and more abrasive by the day. I shot! A goat and clothed myself in its unhired pelt.' This unwearable felt coat stands partly for a past that cannot be recaptured.

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