the importance of our relationship with the natural world. In 2023, the team at Eden began working with Peter on


the development of an edition of the original. Like Seed, it has a Cornish provenance, but this time, it comes from the sea. Made from sea-foraged tin gleaned from a Cornish beach, this edition of Seed draws on a mining tradition that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. We worked with Blue Hills Tin, which is run by the Wills


family, who have been gathering tin ore at Trevallas Porth since the 1960s under licence from the Duchy of Cornwall. The sea ‘mines’ the tin from the rock, which is collected with hand tools from the local beaches. It must be smelted to extract the tin metal, transforming it from a dull brown sand to a shiny, white metal. Unlike the original Seed, which was carved, this edition has been slip-moulded and cast. At 23cm tall, it is as close a replica to the original as possible – albeit without the time-worn surface. ‘There should be 1,111 nodes, but I’m not going to count them’, concedes Peter, ‘it would take too long.’


Overleaf: Peter Randall-Page in his studio by Marco Kesseler. Left: Seed at Eden. Top: Seed being lowered into the Core by Mike Rushworth/APEX. Above right: The granite block Seed in De Lank Quarry by Tom Smith/APEX.


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