An artist was “creeped out” to hear the tree at Sycamore Gap was felled just days after he’d drawn it being removed by a UFO.
Lincoln Lightfoot, 31, had drawn two artworks, one showing two dinosaurs at Sycamore Gap, and another showing a UFO beaming up the tree out of the ground. The York-based artist said: “I was doing a mural in the Metro Centre on a big wall in HMV and the manager suggested I do Sycamore Gap next.
«I’d never heard of it up until that point, but I knew a photographer who had loads of views of Sycamore Gap, so I looked through her photography and talked to her and I knew it was going to be the next thing I would focus on. I did two pieces, the most recent was the UFO flying over the tree and pulling it up out of the ground. After that, a couple of days later, the tree was felled.”
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“I just couldn’t believe it. I was shocked, but also kind of creeped out that I’d only just done that a couple of days before. It was really weird and I had all sorts of different thoughts. Generally, I think it’s terrible and a nonsensical act, a horrible thing. But coinciding with the artwork, I was worried it would change the meaning of it.
(Image: Lincoln Lightfoot)
“It was meant to be funny, like a comical piece, and then I thought ‘this isn’t really funny anymore’, so I was considering whether taking the piece off social media. I called the artwork No More Sycamore, so I thought the name was insensitive too, and in some ways I just pretended I hadn’t seen the news, as I didn’t know how to react.”
Two arrests were later made in connection with the incident, a 16-year-old and a man in his 60’s. Northumbria Police confirmed that both suspects have since been released on bail.
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