Remnant (bench)

Nature has its own form of data, a method of capturing time and history and all the wonder and awe of the complex forces and natural phenomena that transcend that which can be quantified and measured. This piece was carved from a remnant of an ancient redwood tree that was cut down over 100 years ago. It had been buried under earth and used as a logging road  - a “Humboldt Crossing” - while the old growth forest around it was being removed and processed into building materials.  This tree captures time as embedded energy - encapsulating the entropy of the hundreds of years it took to grow - every ring carries a memory of that cyclical time - to the moment it was felled and buried to become a road, and now to this sculptural form that has emerged from the log, that will carry forward this remnant into the next era.