The Magnificent Wooden Figures: Reviving an Ancient Art

The Magnificent Wooden Figures: Reviving an Ancient Art

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In Gilroy, California, a specially constructed theme park features the life’s work of farmer Alex Erlandson: 30 trees grow in the park, each of them unique.

The collection of trees Erlandson planted includes no normal specimens. Each grows in a bizarre and fantastic pattern. Some trees have branches that loop; others have double trunks that spiral around each other or cross in zigzags. One has a single trunk that grows into nine “legs”; another has multiple trunks that regularly part and rejoin in a lacelike pattern.

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