Tree sculpture (Boomsculptuur)

About this artwork.

A more than ten meter high blue steel tree - an abstract representation of a water cypress - and a hornbeam enter into a relationship; in the summer the blue steel and the living wood wrap themselves in green foliage, and in the winter months again become a "bare" distance from each other. The choice for the representation of a water cypress was prompted by the presence of one such type of tree in the southern verge of the Emmalaan. Artist Willem van der Schalie chose to have this only so-called pine tree appear in a deciduous tree on the north side of the Emmalaan.
 
Willem van der Schalie (1946) offered the sculpture in 1994 free of charge to the then municipality of Haren, with the cooperation of the PABK (Provincial Advisory Committee for Visual Arts and Design) from which he received a subsidy. The municipality agrees with the donation and the Haren Cultural Council out of the wish to give the image a color.

Facts & Figures.

• Design
  Willem van der Schalie

• District
  Haren en omgeving

• Year of creation
  1994

• Art type
  Freestanding sculpture

• Material
  Steel

• Dimensions
  h 10,50 x b 2,50 x d 0,30 m / sokkel: b 1,60 m