Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
United Kingdom
For the centenary of the outbreak of World War I
Established	17 July 2014 (2014-07-17)
Unveiled	11 November 2014 (2014-11-11)
Location	51°30′33″N 0°04′31″W / 51.50912°N 0.07528°W / 51.50912; -0.07528 moat at the Tower of London
Designed by	Paul Cummins Tom Piper
Commemorated	888,246 by ceramic poppies
Statistics source: Tower of London Remembers[1]

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a public art installation created in the moat of the Tower of London, England, between July and November 2014. It commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and consisted of 888,246 ceramic red poppies, each intended to represent one British or Colonial serviceman killed in the War. The ceramic artist was Paul Cummins, with conceptual design by the stage designer Tom Piper.^[2] The work's title was taken from the first line of a poem by an unknown soldier in World War I.