Underground Tree

Shigeo Toya – Wood Heads – 1997

Photograph taken 2010

Material: Stone, Wood

Trail: None

Theme: Nature

Form: Realism – Tree

Maps Featured on: 1998 – 2017

Status: Still in situ, inaccessible due to brash growth Oct 23

This is an upside down tree encased in a stone dome. Hands down the hardest sculpture to photograph. In order to see the tree roots you have to climb up the raised platform, it can’t be viewed from ground level.

Photo taken by Barry Green

It was meant to be the first sculpture in an international sculpture trail in 1997, which never happened. It is on the Silurian Way north of the visitor centre. In 2018 it has been removed from the sculpture map, it is still there looking that same as it ever did, just with some dead leaves on top.

Photograph Taken March 2018

As of June 2021 it is now very overgrown.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale – God of Thunder – 1995