Sea of Red
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Installation at the Tower of London, July-November 2014, commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War.
The work consisted of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies (one for every British and Colonial death during the war), created by artist Paul Cummins, with the setting by stage designer Tom Piper.
The title came from "a line in the will of a Derbyshire man who joined up in the earliest days of the war and died in Flanders. Knowing that everyone was dead and he was surrounded by blood, the man wrote: 'The Blood Swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread.'"
[Historic Royal Palaces website]
Sea of Red
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Installation at the Tower of London, July-November 2014, commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War.
The work consisted of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies (one for every British and Colonial death during the war), created by artist Paul Cummins, with the setting by stage designer Tom Piper.
The title came from "a line in the will of a Derbyshire man who joined up in the earliest days of the war and died in Flanders. Knowing that everyone was dead and he was surrounded by blood, the man wrote: 'The Blood Swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread.'"
[Historic Royal Palaces website]