{"id":138689,"date":"2025-09-15T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138689\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:45:04","slug":"cornwall-gardens-turn-storm-felled-tree-into-pouncing-fox-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138689\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall gardens turn storm-felled tree into pouncing fox sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tree predated World War One, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the sculpture ages, the wood will fade to a lighter, more silvery tone which reflects what happens to vixens&#8217; fur after they have become mothers,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculpture is accompanied by a collection of Heligan-inspired poetry from poet laureate Simon Armitage, with both works &#8220;highlighting and celebrating the wildlife who make Heligan their home&#8221;, Heligan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hill said Armitage&#8217;s poem, Den, &#8220;speaks so powerfully of the wild, feral nature of foxes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said a photograph of a pouncing fox taken on the Heligan estate by Andy Wilson was the artists&#8217; &#8220;core inspiration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Lowarnes has her gaze set on you as her prey,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tree predated World War One, a spokesperson said. &#8220;As the sculpture ages, the wood will fade to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-138689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}