Urkiola Beech Tree (2024) in the March/April 2025 (vol. 44/no.2) issue of Sculpture Magazine.
Created for the 75th Anniversary of the Bilbao Diocese, the sculpture was blessed by Mons. Joseba Segura, Bishop of Bilbao, in an opening ceremony at Urkiola on October 6, 2024. The Urkiola Beech Tree sculpture is made of stainless steel and fabricated entirely at Alfa Arte in Eibar, in the Basque Country of Spain, from a model the sculptor created in the United States. It is constructed from a single piece of stainless steel, 3 meters high, and weighs approximately 400 kg.
Photographer credit: José Luis López de Zubiria