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The poppies encircled the Tower, creating not only a spectacular display visible from all around the Tower, but also a location for personal reflection. The scale of the installation was intended to reflect the magnitude of such an important centenary and create a powerful visual commemoration.
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a public art installation created in the moat of the Tower of London, England, between July and November 2014. It commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and consisted of 888,246 ceramic red poppies , each intended to represent one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the War.
- 888,246 by ceramic poppies
- 11 November 2014
- 17 July 2014
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Mar 5, 2018 · Tom Piper, left, and Paul Cummins at the Tower. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian. Planting all 888,246 poppies was a huge undertaking. It became a piece of performative art lasting four ...
- Imogen Tilden
Sep 8, 2017 · Now a new project has been launched to track down every single poppy from the exhibit and ‘pin’ it on a map of the world. The WWI centenary arts initiative 14-18 Now has launched the website ...
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Nov 7, 2014 · Pictures of the hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies that form the installation, Blood Swept Lands And Seas Of Red, at the Tower of London.
Sep 4, 2015 · A photo posted by Ceri Boddis (@peachykeen96) on Sep 1, 2015 at 5:14am PDT. Visitors look at an installation of poppies titled "Wave" by Paul Cummins at Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield ...
Nov 7, 2014 · Tower of London poppies: how the Great War memorial became a phenomenon. More than four million people have seen the installation for the First World War fallen and there is a growing...
