LEISURE MANAGEMENT PEOPLE “People should get
involved in physically making things so that they mean
something more” Paul Cummins, ceramic artist
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rtist Paul Cummins' Blood Swept Lands And Seas of Red art installa- tion is taking shape at the Tower of London.
More than 800,000 ceramic pop-
pies are being planted at the Tower in order to commemorate the British and Commonwealth soldiers who died during the First World War. The installation, which was unveiled at the start of August, will see 888,246 poppies progressively fi lling the moat, creating a dramatic display. The last fl ower will be planted on Armistice Day, 11 November 2014. “There will literally be 16 acres of ceramic fl owers around the moat to encase it to represent the people who died at the front of the First World War,” said Paul Cummins. Cummins was inspired by a line in the will of a Derbyshire service- man who died in Flanders in which he described the 'blood-swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread'. Cummins enlisted the help of a team of volunteers to make the pop- pies, which are being assembled and fi red in Derby. “I normally make
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The eye-catching poppies appear to cascade out of the Tower of London and into its moat
everything myself but I need help with this because there are so many poppies," he said. "I've managed to gather together a lot of people – sev- enty per cent of whom are artists – who all have a direct link to a mem- ber of the armed forces, or people they
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know who've died [during the war]. “I prefer to make my work using as little machinery as possible. People should get involved in physically making something so that it means something more.” The fl owers are on sale for £25 each, with 10 per cent of each poppy being donated to six service charities. Sales of the poppies raised more than £2.5m in the fi rst two days alone.
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