Artist Conrad Bakker’s wood sculpture of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond, titled “Untitled Project: Cabin [Thoreau],” was created for an art exhibition in France. Photo courtesy of Conrad Bakker
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The cabin by the water looks just like the one that Henry David Thoreau built and lived in. Visitors can peer inside through a door that is slightly ajar but they are unable to enter the cabin, which is actually a carved and painted wood sculpture. The cabin sculpture is located on the shore of Lac Nord along the Basque coast in southwestern France, rather than at Walden Pond in Massachusetts. University of Illinois art professor Conrad Bakker created the sculpture " Untitled Project: Cabin [Thoreau] " for an art exhibition, Biennale Internationale D'Art Contemporain Anglet-Côte Basque , in France. Visitors can't enter the cabin, but they can see a wood sculpture of "Walden" through the door. Photo courtesy of Conrad Bakker The cabin at Walden Pond is an official replica of the one Thoreau built, the original having deteriorated long ago.
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