Poppy on the Rocks
by Clare Bevan
Title
Poppy on the Rocks
Artist
Clare Bevan
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A lonely poppy has spring up between the rocks in a dry riverbed in Andalucia, Southern Spain.
Scarlet corn poppies grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth throughout Western Europe. The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers.
In late 1914, the fields of Northern France and Flanders were once again ripped open as World War One raged through Europe's heart. Once the conflict was over the poppy was one of the only plants to grow on the otherwise barren battlefields.
© 2015 Clare Bevan
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April 22nd, 2015
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