CROCKERNWELL sculptor Peter Randall-Page made national headlines this week, as his most ambitious work ever was painstakingly transported to the Eden Project in Cornwall. Peter?s new sculpture, The Seed, will tower through three stories of a new education centre at Eden. The Seed is one of the largest works of art ever made from a single piece of stone, weighing the equivalent of ten African elephants, and heavier than the biggest megalith at Stonehenge. The egg-shaped sculpture is not based on any particular species of plant. ?It?s a pattern you?ll find everywhere in nature,? Mr Randall-Page said. Covering its surface are 1,800 nodules representing the complex Fibonacci growth pattern found across the natural world. ?The maths is extremely complicated,? said Mr Randall-Page, who used a three-dimensional computer modeller to help him plan his approach to the design. His seed, which took five years to plan and three to create, will be unveiled at a celebratory ?rock? concert next week, at which world-music legend Peter Gabriel will be performing. Eden?s creative development director Peter Hampel described Mr Randall-Page?s sculpture as ?a fantastic work of art that will stand forever as a symbol of our generation?s recognition that we are part of nature, not apart from it.? The Seed was led on the final leg of its journey to Eden by a procession of 500 schoolchildren and 20 drummers. Once there, a 1,000-tonne crane was needed to lift the huge granite sculpture into what Eden?s directors hope will be its final resting place.
