Silent Monuments

On August 5th, 2014, for the memory of 100th anniversary of England's participation to World War I, an installation was started around the Tower of London, where the troops were gathered and trained during the war, that involved placing of a ceramic flower for each solider, fought and died in the war. The installation is named as "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" and on the occasion of this work, an approach that is based on designing artefacts for inscribing, once again, the events to collective memory or preserving the memories of destructive events for everyone or for a portion of the society, is brought to the agenda. Projects like Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, are important not only by means of their scale and location, but also by their adopted language proper to the monuments of the 21st century, which anticipate only to remind, rather than triggering hostility and provocation through constant accentuation. (Author abstract)