BBC News, North East and Kumbriya
Northerland national parkA piece of the world famous sycamore gap tree that had fallen illegally about two years ago, goes to a permanent performance.
The Act expressed global condemnation and displeasure in September 2023, in which two people were found guilty of cutting the tree earlier this year.
Now, people will be able to look and touch the part of its trunk at the North Novemberland Visiting Center, where the tree was standing, as a permanent monument has been unveiled for its flawless destruction.
The BBC is to see what the performance looks like – and there is an insight about how it was made.
In a workshop in a small village of Cumbria, an idea is taking shape.
The large shed is a thin track at any time where artists Charlie Whomnani make their abstract and beautiful sculptures.
They often provide steam-bent wooden facilities that rotate in my brain, when I travel, with its twist and turn.
Their curved works are everywhere that I see, and their signature style will now surround the sycamore gap trunk.
The piece of the tree, which is longer than 6 feet (2 meters), reached the Charlie workshop in mid -June, as part of a permanent exhibition at the Sil National Landscape Discovery Center near Hadrian Wall in Northerlands three weeks before its unveiling.
He is preparing a trunk for metal work that will keep it upright, carving and drilling with drilling is the only modification that he is doing to Cicamore himself.
This is a nervous-veraging work, he says to me, “Because many people care about it, you don’t want to mess it up”.
The wood is cut smoothly and “is really good to work with”, the artist says, as he attaches a three-dimensional metal basplate that will eventually hold the trunk vertical once again.
He is not an emotional person, but “how hugged it is, how it is blowing”, he says, before inviting me to wrap his arms around the trunk – which, of course, I do.
This is the one who visits the installation, he will also be able to do it.
PA mediaCharlie says, “The real design came from what people said.” “They wanted to be able to sit, so we made some benches, and the people who were talked about, very high 100% of the people were also said to be able to reach the tree and touch it.”
What to do with the tree, a public counseling was held to work, which included workshops with children and any written contribution people wanted to make.
From marriage proposals to the shatter of ash, there was a part of a lot of memorable moments for many people.
Three benches with canopies formed with curved wooden stems and leaves now surround the trunk, seats marked with words taken from people’s submission.
The Northerlands National Park Authority (NNPA) received thousands of emails, letters and messages in visitor books from people talking about the tree, with each one to be read by staff members.
The Authority commissioned Charlie and Creative Community Art Collective, a Community Interest Company, which makes sustainable art projects to give an artistic response with wood.
“It was very important in the beginning when we received the Commission to represent the tree who loved the tree, or knew the tree in life.”
“This shows its absence how much it meant for people.”
Park’s business development director Rosie Thomas helped take some messages in the establishment.
“The words that were chosen take you all the way through feelings of grief, grief, initial response, future for the future,” she says.
“The really good thing about words is that everyone had a different experience and everyone’s experience will also be different with this establishment because the path you take to read the words makes your personal poem.”
The trunk and bench were hidden behind the curtains, while they were being installed in the sil, which is just two miles from where the tree was standing.
For Tony Gates, the Chief Executive Officer of NNPA, will be a big moment of establishment in front of the public on Thursday morning.
It has become difficult for everyone 18 months after the tree collapses, they say.
“In September 2023, people felt that they would lose the tree forever and perhaps felt in some ways they would lose those memories of life events,” they say.
“To be a part of that tree with this beautiful installation today to sit here, it gives me a ray of hope for the future, it’s time to look forward and it is time for nature to recur to positive things for nature.”
Both Daniel Graham and Adam Karutors are to be sentenced on July 15, from Cumbria. Trees are being found guilty of cutting,
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