Sculpture Unveiled at South Mountain Conservancy
Larry Dell's "Nature's Resolve" is the first in the new Wildflower Sculpture Project.
Maplewood resident Larry Dell says he spends a lot of time in the South Mountain Reservation — especially after October’s nor’easter. It was during his time in the Reservation, Dell studied the storm’s damage to nature and the foliage that he got the idea to do something positive with the twigs and branches. “I come up here often and after the snowstorm, there were so many trees and twigs down,” said Dell. “I decided I’d utilize these twigs and trees into this structure.” Dell collected the trees and branches and tightly wove them together in a pyramid shape. He then painted the sculpture a metallic aluminum color. The 9½-foot-tall, 5-foot-wide sculpture he created is made exclusively of storm-damaged twigs and branches and was dedicated…
