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John C. Sewell, a sculptor from West Fork, uses a chain saw Wednesday to work on a sculpture of a woman’s form using a 9-foot oak tree in the front yard of a home at 745 N. Sequoyah Drive in Fayetteville. Sewell has been sculpting wood, metal and stone into vessels and representations of the female form for about 30 years. His sculptures are in public collections of Loveland, Colo., Westin Gardens in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Memphis Botanical Gardens in Tennessee. After it was determined by an arborist the tree needed to be removed, the residents of the home decided to have Sewell make the carving rather than cut down their beloved tree.