Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

Commemorating the Beginning of WWI with a Sea of Red Ceramic Poppies at the Tower of London

“The work commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and was made up of 888,246 ceramic red poppies, one for each British or Colonial service member killed in the War. The title, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red refers to the first line of a poem by an unknown soldier in…