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The Peace Doves 🕊️ installation in Southwark Cathedral, London. Very moving and very poignant, especially now, in an aggressive world. #peace More info in Alt description 🕊️

From the Southwark Cathedral online page … The world is crying for peace. Peter Walker’s beautiful installation gives voice to the thousands who have written their hopes on the soaring doves. Spending time with the installation has a distilling effect as it asks us to look up, to look beyond ourselves and the self-destruction we can all be engaged in, and to instead seek harmony, beauty, and a shared future shaped by peaceful relationships and justice. Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark Southwark Cathedral is delighted to be hosting Peace Doves, an extraordinary installation created by internationally acclaimed sculptor Peter Walker. This impactful installation, features thousands of paper doves decorated with messages of peace. Peace Doves is a large-scale, mass participation artwork featuring thousands of paper doves carrying personal messages of peace, hope and love. The doves all carry unique messages, written by visitors, school children, and community groups, and together they form a breathtaking installation that offers a serene space for contemplation and hope. Bathed in gentle, evocative lighting and at times accompanied by an original score by David Harper, the exhibit transforms the venue into a sanctuary of quiet reflection.

aug 26, 2025, 10:15 am • 79 5

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How cool must it be in person if it came out this incredible in a photograph!

aug 26, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view

Here’s a little clip. 😊

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