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==== Art at The Core ==== [[File:The Seed at Eden Project.jpg|thumbnail|right|upright=0.6|''Seed'' by [[Peter Randall-Page]]]] The Core is also home to art exhibitions throughout the year. A permanent installation entitled ''Seed'', by [[Peter Randall-Page]], occupies the anteroom. ''Seed'' is a large, 70 tonne egg-shaped installation, carved from a single block of [[granite]] from [[De Lank Quarries|De Lank Quarry]] on [[Bodmin Moor]], standing some {{convert|13|ft}} tall and displaying a complex pattern of protrusions that are based upon the [[Fibonacci number#Nature|geometric and mathematical principles that underlie plant growth]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Granite seed is 'planted' at Eden |work=[[BBC News]] |date= 11 June 2007 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6738783.stm |access-date= 25 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.edenproject.com/visit/whats-here/seed-sculpture |title= Seed sculpture by Peter Randall-Page |publisher= Eden Project |access-date= 25 February 2018 |quote= Made out of a single piece of granite, its surface has been carved with 1,800 nodes in the pattern of a Fibonacci spiral β the growth pattern found across the natural world in things like sunflowers, pine cones and ammonites}}</ref>
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