Friday, November 14, 2014

The poppies flow

Okay, one final story out of the UK for Remembrance Week.

Last month staff at GCHQ (Britain’s intelligence and security agency; roughly the equivalent of our NSA) formed a human poppy in the atrium of their headquarters in Cheltenham. 


They put on red rain ponchos to form the petals, with a few folks in black in the center, and a bunch of people in cammies holding up tarps for the stem. Really pretty visually effective, and interesting that they did it, because the only visual impact comes from the air.


I like it because it’s another form of installation art—ephemeral, so you have to take hold of it when it appears. Rather like life, actually.

And here’s how they put it together:


The official “remembrance” period has passed. But I hope you take some of this week’s sights and sounds with you throughout the year, and spare a thought now and then for the men and women who go in harm’s way in our behalf.


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