by Nikki Coulombe

Artwork Description

Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair

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The Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair, 29H x 29W x 29D inches, is thicker and heavier than most of the chairs, with extensive carving details in the plaster emphasizing its unique character. The front of the chair is a rendition of the fossil of a Cycad leaf from the first species of palm-like trees that grew about 50 million years ago. The original Cycad leaf fossil was discovered in a Wyoming riverbed. The circumference on the back of this chair has an informal mosaic embedded with authentic fossils of an extinct clam and pebbles. The extinct genus of shells called Myalina are estimated to be 345 - 225 - million years old, and were found in a playground in the Dallas, Texas area. Completing the back of the chair, the surface is textured along with patterns of the bark and leaf scars of a fossilized Paleozoic Lepidodendron. The first trees on Earth were actually leafless; nothing more than woody stems standing in and absorbing nutrients from water. Lepidodendron were a primitive species of the very first trees on earth, reaching heights of 130 feet (40 m) tall, with leaves that grew flat directly along the bark around 400 million years ago.

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Medium: Mixed Media

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