On September 25, 2013, British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide. (via Lustik and thisiscolossal.com)
They must have known that the tide would wash away all the hard work, saying something about the brief nature of human survival on the beaches in WW2. So it was a very good idea to photograph the emotional art work in detail, for as long as it lasted.
ReplyDeleteAre those the derelict landing craft I see in some of the photos?
ReplyDeletewow, amazing!
ReplyDeletestartling to see what 9000 looks like - changes it from a number to something with far more impact
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