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Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, was created by Paul Cummings & Tom Piper.  The work's title is taken from a poem by a World War 1 unknown soldier.

"... the idea is that you can see a whole field of poppies that would be transient, like the people that fought - there for a small amount of time and then gone ..."  Paul Cummings

This ceramic poppy was one of 888,246 that filled the moat of the Tower of London, from 17 July until Armistice Day 11 November 2014; each one representing a British or Colonial military fatality during the Great War.