Video: Thousands of red poppies stained the ground: installation in memory of the victims of the First World War
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As you know, the red poppy symbolizes memory of the victims of the First World War … A large-scale installation has recently opened in London to mark its centenary. At the initiative of artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper, thousands of ceramic flowers have been planted around the Tower.
The authors called the installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", which means "Blood stained the lands and seas", and indeed, the "bloody river" makes a depressing impression. According to the plan of the organizers, it is planned to install 888,246 poppies in total, exactly as many as the British died during the war. In memory of everyone, a red poppy will "bloom".
Ceramic poppies “bloomed” in the moat around the Tower of the Tower. Volunteers are expected to gradually fill the space with ceramic flowers over the course of several months. As long as the war went on. It is symbolic that the landing of the last flower is scheduled for November 11, because it was on this day a century ago, at 11 a.m., that hostilities were formally stopped.
From August 5, anyone can buy a flower of memory, the cost of which is £ 25. 10% of the proceeds will be transferred to the accounts of six charitable organizations that are involved in helping servicemen and people who suffered during the hostilities.
The organizers are sure that such a large-scale installation is extremely important, because these flowers are an eloquent reminder of those terrible events that not only England, but the whole world had to endure. And today, when war again knocks on the homes of people in different countries of the world, God grant us all the wisdom not to make new sacrifices to it, to prevent rivers of blood from spilling over the lands and seas.
Recall that recently the Scottish photographer Peter Mackdyarmid presented a photo cycle timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
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