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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 Manhattan's 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 where they were felled in the New Jersey Pine Barrens to draw attention to deforestation caused by cl...

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 of those who died in the Vietnam War. Lin’s Ghost Forest also mirrors loss, visualizing the degra...

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 is part of Madison Square Park Conservancy’s public art program. In keeping with Lin’s commitment...

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 phenomenon in which large swaths of woodland are killed off at once by rapid environmental degradatio...

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