Eden Project Seed

Seed is a monumental granite sculpture by the artist Peter Randall-Page, carved from a single block of De Lank granite weighing around 167 tonnes. Commissioned in 2003, it took close to four years to complete, and was both quarried and carved at De Lank before being moved to the Eden Project. Its surface carries almost 2,000 raised nodes, set out on the same spiral pattern, the phyllotaxis of the Fibonacci sequence, that orders the seeds in a pinecone or a sunflower head and the structure of the Core building that houses it. The sculpture sits at the heart of the Core in a chamber designed around it, lit by daylight falling through an opening above. It is one of the largest sculptures ever carved from a single piece of British granite.