In 2014 creative individual Paul Cummins as well as designer Tom Piper installed 888,246 ceramic blood-red poppies inwards the moat of the Tower of London. The artwork was called 'Blood Swept Lands as well as Seas of Red' as well as was created inwards commemoration of the centenary of the commencement of World War I. Each of the poppies planted inwards the moat represented a colonial or British serviceman killed inwards the war.
After the installation ended the poppies were sold for £25 each, inwards lodge to heighten coin for service charities. You tin straightaway meet where a lot of the poppies convey gone on a novel interactive map.
Owners of a poppy tin constitute their flowers on the Where are the Poppies? map. So far nearly 35,000 people convey added their poppies to the map. If you lot click on a poppy on the map you lot tin read the even out close the bloom that the possessor has shared amongst Where are the Poppies.
