From 2014 to 2018 thousands of people spread over Flanders and the rest of the world will take part in the making of of the installation by moulding 600,000 sculptures out of clay. Each and every sculpture represents one of the 600,000 victims who lost their lives in Belgium during the First World War. After being baked in the oven, all the sculptures will be identified by a dog tag, the universal system of identification used for soldiers. On this dog tag we will put the name of one of the victims mentioned on the ‘The Name List’ which is composed by the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres. Each dog tag will also bear the name of one of the makers. In this way different generations and nationalities will be united in the commemoration.
