Sep 25, 2013
The Fallen is a site specific installation made up of nine thousand silhouettes hand-drawn in the sand on the Normandy beach in memory of the soldiers and civilians who died on D-Day: June 6, 1944. British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss (and 200 volunteers!) created the work over the weekend of September 21 to mark the International Day of Peace. The project was two years in the planning and the results, which were ultimately washed away by the tide, powerfully address the transience of life and the finality of death.