9000 Sand Drawings of the Fallen: British artists andy moss and jamie wardley of sand in your eye, along with a team volunteers, arranged and stenciled 9,000 drawings on the sand of the d-day landing beaches in normandy, representing the civilians, germans and allied forces that died during WWII. ‘the fallen‘, which commemorates international peace day on september 21, is a massive art installation of thousands of silhouettes covering the shoreline. echoing the ephemeral nature of the lives lost, the artworks are totally erased by the incoming tide, a sobering reminder of what happens when peace is not present. ‘…the idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable – the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the WWII normandy landings on 6 june 1944. there will be no distinction between nationalities, they will be known only as ‘the fallen’. it does not propose to be a celebration or condemnation, simply a statement of fact and tribute to life and its premature loss.’ — jamie wardley How sobering is this?
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:43:39 +0000
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