Hugh Hayden is an American artist who works in wood, wicker, and other natural materials to create sculptures that transcend the organic and the artificial.
His latest piece, which is titled simply Eve, shows what appears to be a transhumanist journey between human and plant. The cherry bark, resin, and walnut wood sculpture shows the impending birth of the first child of a new race that unites humanity with a tree.
But if this is Eve in the Garden of Eden, is she uniting with the Tree of Life or the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Hayden offers only mysteries instead of concrete answers.