The pencil, known as the Loti Tree, was once a much-beloved 180-year-old bur oak before it was damaged by a thunderstorm in 2017.
In 2022, Higgins then commissioned Curtis Ingvoldstad to sculpt the damaged tree into a living artwork, in the form of a 20-foot-tall No.2 pencil.
In 2022, Higgins then commissioned Curtis Ingvoldstad to sculpt the damaged tree into a living artwork, in the form of a 20-foot-tall No.2 pencil.
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00:30It's an event in sculpting it, but it's also a pencil, and a pencil needs to be sharpened.
00:51When you sharpen it, it's a promise to write a formula, to write a love letter, to write
00:54a story.
00:55It needs to be a living sculpture in that sense.