Part of a trilogy about wood.

Water pipelines with the remainings of a huge tree

Shots in a circuit for water flowing from a wooden basin up to a river through rustic wood pipes.

In 2009 a huge 173-year-old cedar was cut in the gardens of the university next door. I don’t know why, maybe it was already dead and implied a huge danger in case of storms. Just 50 m away from its remainings, which somebody converted into artwork with water as you will see here, there’s another huge tree which I imagine similar to the protagonist of this story:

The dead tree was turned into a small piece of artwork with water. The main base of the tree has a basin that gets filled with water, which then flows through pipes and small jumps through three main sections until it finally ends in the slopes of a nearby river.

Here’s where the water starts its parkour:

The water makes its first turn left and jumps at this junction:

A closer view on the connection:

Here’s the last wooden pipe:

At the end, the last pipe is open-ended so the water just jumps into a final piece of wood that drives it toward a small river behind the bushes:

This last view shows the full circuit again:

A reflection by Inge E. Knudsen, that she posted as a comment and I think fits perfectly as a closing to this story:

This is ingenious and not only because of the structure, but the mere thought of using the wood like this instead of cutting it up, and making a sculpture that is beautiful, intriguing and at the same practical -genius.

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