The Tree of Life refers to an archetype found in many of the world’s mythologies, religions and philosophical traditions, describing a tree which connects all forms of creation. In Christianity, this tree is presented in the Bible as the source of eternal life in the Garden of Eden; in Shamanic cosmologies however, the tree is said to connect the Lower, Middle and Upper worlds. Lyons’ sculpture is more naturalistic than his earlier steel constructions, and is more organic in construction, with visibly raw edges to the bronze forms.