Huge seed-shaped sculpture, created by Peter Randall-Page, The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, England. UK.
Made out of a single piece of granite, its surface has been carved with 1,800 nodes in the pattern of a Fibonacci spiral – the growth pattern found across the natural world in things like sunflowers, pine cones and ammonites. The same spiral is also visible in the roof of the Core building. it weighs more than 70-tonnes. The piece of stone it’s carved from is thought to be several hundred million years old. One of the biggest sculptures in history made from a single piece of rock, Seed started life as a 167-tonne granite boulder extracted from De Lank Quarry, on the edge of Cornwall's Bodmin Moor, where Peter Randall-Page and his team spent more than two years painstakingly sculpting the rock. Seed was lowered into the centre of the Core in 2007 using the largest crane in Europe.
Size: 4000px × 3000px
Location: The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, England, UK, GB, United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Photo credit: © Stephen Sykes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: eden, peter, project, randall-page, sculpture
