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Maya Lin installs Ghost Forest of dead trees in Downtown Manhattan Artist and designer Maya Lin has installed 49 dead cedar trees in Downtown Manhattans Madison Square Park to raise awareness of ecosystem die-off due to climate change. Called Ghost Forest, the project was commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy. The dead Atlantic white cedar trees have been erected on The Oval Lawn of the park. Ghost Forest is an installation of dead cedar trees Lin transported the ghostly trees from wh...

feed to stay on top of the news. The trees used by Lin that she refers to as “gentle giants” are still alive but dying from the rot in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. While the coastal cedars were once abundant along the East Coast, the aforementioned circumstances have dwindled the trees down to 50,000 acres. Lin, 61, is well-known for her memorials and reflections of loss, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which somber black stone bears the more than 58,000 names...

Maya Lin with Ghost Forest (2021). Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. If you’re walking down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this month, you might do a double take when you hit Madison Square Park. It’s an oasis normally, this green island in the middle of the city—but now, it’s home to a surreal stand of dead trees, seemingly sprung up overnight. The installation, titled Ghost Forest, is the work of renowned artist and architect Maya Lin, and i...

The urban forest recalls the island’s pre-city past as a dense woodland teeming with birdsong and animals larger than rats, and stands as a sort of slow-rolling funeral – the 49 trees, all about 80 years old, are still technically alive but will die completely within about two years, the victim of saltwater tree rot from rising sea levels in New Jersey’s coastal Pine Barrens region. Lin’s Ghost Forest, hosted in the park until 14 November, takes it name from the ecological p...

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Get our free mobile app Ghost Forest, residing in Madison Square Park in New York City, is the brain child of Professional Forester Bob Williams and artist Maya Lin. 60 Atlantic White Cedar Trees from Maurice River Township, Cumberland County were presented to Lin, who selected 45 of them to become part of the exhibit. NJ.com reports that salt water intrusion is causing clusters of trees in New Jersey to die off. The rising of sea levels related to climate change appears to be the root of that ...

Forty-nine dead trees have just been planted in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. What looks at first like a pretty serious landscaping accident is actually an art installation by Maya Lin that’s been created in order to highlight the effects of climate change. Advertisement Lin, who’s perhaps best known for creating the Washington, D.C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, brought the dead trees from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where rising sea levels have killed stretches of the forest’s Atlant...

The installation, which Maya Lin said carries a sense of mourning, has taken on added meaning since the death of her husband in January.

Surface cover star Maya Lin has unveiled a public installation at Madison Square Park. Dubbed  Ghost Forest, the work comprises 49 spectral white cedar tree transplants meant to shed light on the eponymous dying event impacting woodlands around the world due to climate change. The Download: Sourced from New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, the grove of barren cedars presents a stark juxtaposition with the surrounding greenscape, bringing to light issues like species loss, habitat loss, and climate...

Get our free mobile app Ghost Forest, residing in Madison Square Park in New York City, is the brain child of Professional Forester Bob Williams and artist Maya Lin. 60 Atlantic White Cedar Trees from Maurice River Township, Cumberland County were presented to Lin, who selected 45 of them to become part of the exhibit. NJ.com reports that salt water intrusion is causing clusters of trees in New Jersey to die off. The rising of sea levels related to climate change appears to be the root of that ...