Tree Pole
Somewhere Nowhere 2018
Harriet and Rob Fraser make up Somewhere Nowhere, the team also responsible for the 'Treefold: Centre' up on Carron Crag. This is one of ten 'tree pole' sculptures dotted about the United Kingdom, all with a different poem carved into the trunk, written by Harriet.
The pole can be found just over the river from Kennels Road car park, next to 'Boat Race' and can't be missed if you are walking the Millwood Trail.
Here's the poem in full:
Wander here,
look up and see:
branches high,
canopy green.
Wonder now
at things unseen:
how trees knit land,
slow water's flow,
keep air clean,
and hold earth's health
in wood and leaves.
Be warned - it takes ten full circuits of the pole to read the verse in full, making this the most dizzying sculpture since that roundabout on the old playground.
Also by this artist:
Treefold: Centre 2017