{"id":15779,"date":"2024-10-03T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15779"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:15:27","slug":"an-artists-journey-working-with-875000-year-old-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/an-artists-journey-working-with-875000-year-old-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artist’s Journey – working With 875,000-Year-Old Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eleanor Lakelin\u2019s work for The Extinction Collection offers a captivating intersection of history, nature, and art. Her sculptures, Pine Studies 1 and 2, are carved from 875,000 year old wood\u2014found at Happisburgh, Norfolk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This prehistoric pine, buried for centuries beneath coastal sediment, and exposed by erosion, has been carefully collected and treated before being transformed into Lakelin\u2019s  thought-provoking sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s been an 18 month process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 1 – collecting, soaking and stabilising the wood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage two – turning, carving and sanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stage 3 – melting and applying pine rosin to the sculptures, to fill cracks and stabilise the turned wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Images: EAE & Eleanor Lakelin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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