Tree of Hope

On September 11th 2001, Trinity Church might have been erased by falling wreckage of the collapsing World Trade Center, but an old sycamore tree in the churchyard cemetery caught and deflected the metal projectiles ---saving the building but losing its own life.  Later Artist Steve Tobin obtained the tree's root-pack and made a life-sized cast of them in bronze. The freeform roots shape was purposefully up-ended and then painted orange. The sculpture, titled (The) Trinity Root, serves the same purpose as the preserved stump.