Great trees gave their limbs and leaves as axles, paper, bows, hulls and roofs, and held space and time for our ancestors’ radical rituals.

Standing 20’ tall, Methuselah v2.0 is a 1:1 scale replica of the oldest living thing in the universe, an ancient bristlecone pine tree located in California's White Mountains, which was germinated around 2833 BCE. Primarily Steel, the sculpture’s bark is an organic pattern of thin sheet, patinated to blues, greens, browns and whites, and curling surfaces of choreographed metal rods as well as rivers of stained glass.  

Alongside time, ancestry and evolution are themes in this work, whose namesake’s rings and branches bore witness to the entire span of recorded human history. Mythology is laced with titanic trees such as the norse Mímameiðr, which cannot be harmed by fire and Ygddrasil where the gods congregate. Methuselah joins these giants by dislocating the viewer from the frenzy of present day time and re-anchoring them in the still time of mythology. 

Methuselah was created in partnership with Misha Naiman and Majorelle Arts.