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Park administrators have noticed some strange happenings at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park since its opening last month. The sculptures seem to be giving birth, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.

The first to spawn was Roxy Paine's Split, a 50-foot aluminum tree in reflective silver. A few days after the park’s opening, a baby Split, titled Splinter, appeared next to it, with a label crediting the Seattle artist team of SuttonBeresCuller (The artists John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler denied creating the piece, however).

Next, a smaller version of Alexander Calder's Eagle appeared, titled Eaglets. The “offspring” were placed in a nest beside the bright red sculpture, courtesy of painter Jason Puccinelli, illustrator Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren, a conceptual art mastermind and co-founder of the art bar known as The Hideout (the trio, it turns out, also is the real creator of Splinter).

“They're not part of the museum's collection, but we're going to leave them where they are," museum spokeswoman Erika Lindsay said of the new additions. "This kind of engagement is positive and respectful to the art. We welcome it."

While the Eaglets remain tucked in their nest, tiny Splinter perished after a three-week run, when somebody stepped on it, possibly not realizing it was there.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Unplanned 'offspring' at Olympic Sculpture Park get SAM's blessing