'I found common themes emerging: it was so cold and grey, and they wanted to go home,' Dionne says. 'I wanted to get some elements of Luton in there: the Town Hall, the ship or airplane they arrived on, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where a lot of the women came to work as nurses, and Vauxhall Motors, where my Dad worked. It struck me that the arriving passengers wore their ‘Sunday best’, not knowing what the weather was going to be like.'
Pieces of Legacy took 40 days to complete, a period filled with late nights and a few mishaps. “By the end I was working on it every day: cut fingers, late nights, I even broke one of my tools!' Dionne recalls.