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While the pointed hill in Ylöjärvi, Finland known as Tree Mountain now looks like an oddly symmetrical natural forest, it is actually a colossal work of man-made art that stands as the world's first virgin forest built by man.
Proposed in 1982, hill itself had to be built before the swirling rows of trees could be planted. Once the land itself was built, the artist, Agnes Denes, enlisted 11,000 people from all across the globe to plant 11,000 in a specifically designed pattern. The pattern itself was meant to evoke ancient artworks as well as the mathematical precision found in many of the works of the painting masters. The planting itself took four years from 1992 - 1996. With everything set to roll, the artist simply let nature do its thing. The trees flourished on the reclaimed land and by the early 2000s the intricate pattern was beginning to show itself as though it had simply occurred naturally.
The environmental art project is stated to be a 400 year installation although there does not seem to be a plan to raze the land when the time is up. In fact it seems as though the trees could last far beyond that date. The forest has continued to thrive down the years and is now so lush that the pattern can barely be discerned. The forest itself is now creating the patterns and it does not look like it has any intention of stopping any time soon.
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