{"id":46352,"date":"2025-03-27T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=46352"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:10:49","slug":"where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-an-anti-war-artwork-by-street-artist-742-appears-on-the-runway-of-the-former-raf-greenham-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-an-anti-war-artwork-by-street-artist-742-appears-on-the-runway-of-the-former-raf-greenham-common\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” \u2013 An Anti-War Artwork by Street Artist 742 Appears on the Runway of the Former RAF Greenham Common"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A 256 m\u00b2 black cloth, adorned with a pattern of white wildflowers, was laid out for a day on the runway of the former RAF Greenham Common, near Newbury. This historic site was home to the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, a women’s protest against nuclear weapons that lasted for 19 years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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742<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u2014 Where have all the flowers gone? \u2014 asks the famous anti-war song. \u2014 They are all on black cloths, \u2014 responds 742, transforming public space into a field of collective mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 These flowers are plucked, unnatural, lifeless. With this work, I mourn the whole world. I mourn the victims of every senseless slaughter. I mourn the belief that good will always triumph. I mourn our future and the future of our children, as I watch politicians juggle it for the sake of their own spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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742<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The world is once again heading down the same path that once led to catastrophe. I don’t want this to happen again. The black cloth is a reminder that war never truly disappears. It returns through the decisions made on our behalf, through loud words that drown out the truth, through our silence, which has no justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work references the song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, written by Pete Seeger in 1955. The simple melody, inspired by the lullaby “Koloda-Duda” from Mikhail Sholokhov\u2019s novel And Quiet Flows the Don (Tales of the Don), became an anti-war anthem. In 1962, Marlene Dietrich performed it in multiple languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 When will they ever learn? \u2014 the song\u2019s final refrain echoes as a desperate cry for peace and hope. \u2014 I ask the same question, \u2014 says 742, painting white flowers onto the black cloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 20, artist 742 presented his new anti-war piece, addressing the themes of vulnerability and the fragility of human life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"type_post":[184],"column":[],"class_list":["post-46352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=46352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}