9,000 sand drawings honour fallen on Normandy Beach

On International Peace Day, an imaginative art project was a powerful reminder of the cost of war.
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 The Fallen was an innately temporary installation: 9,000 stencilled figures, drawn on sand to be washed away like the lives of the soldiers who died there in World War II.

Sculptors Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss create The Fallen, to raise awareness of International Peace Day. The project took place on the D-Day landing beach, were many soldiers lost their lives during World War Two. The exact number of deaths is not known, but the 9,000 figures were an estimate of the number of bodies.

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Joshua Allen
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Joshua Allen is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and editor. He also is the Project Manager for visible ink and currently an editorial intern, writer and reviewer for ArtsHub. Follow him on twitter: @joshuawords