The historic Tower of London is bleeding poppies! Artist Paul Cummins placed 888,246 ceramic flowers throughout the grounds as a tribute to the soldiers who fell during World War I. The installation is called "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red," and each of the ceramic flowers represents one British or Colonial fatality during the war.
888,246 Dead Soldiers :
Just the tip of the iceberg.
Millions
Have been killed:
by
War.
Most of them civilians,
Men, Women and Children.
Lunatics lead the way
to
Bloody death.
Marking 100 years since the Brits' involvement in the first World War, Cummins was commissioned to create a moving, yet beautiful installation in tribute. The delicate poppies adorn the entire castle and its grounds. Cummins has gather the individually sculpted faux flowers in flowing groups. Some pour out of the Tower windows, cascading to the ground, while others seem to splash over from the fields into the pedestrian walkways, bringing a trail of bright crimson to visitors' feet. Groups of the deep red flowers gather as if in pools, filling up the towers moat to create an eerie look of red water, or spilled blood.
The Tower of London's Moat is Bleeding Thousands of Blood Red Poppies
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