Fallen Poppy by . Remembrance day image for 2009. A fallen poppy lies on 'Folk Stones' ( 2008) by the artist Mark W

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Fallen Poppy by . Remembrance day image for 2009. A fallen poppy lies on 'Folk Stones' ( 2008) by the artist Mark Wallinger. 19,240 individually hand numbered stones representing the number of British soldiers who died on the first day of the battle of the Somme in northern France on 1st of July 1916. The exhibit, one of a series of permanent artworks commissioned for the Folkestone triennial last year, sits on The Leas in Folkstone above the English Channel which was crossed by the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in WW1 in France and Belgium.

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Size: 5192px × 3455px
Photo credit: © BRIAN HARRIS / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, folk, folkestone, mark, poppy, remember, somme, stones, trienni, triennial, wallinger, ww1