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.
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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 Atlantic Cedars with saltwater inundation. Lin told
Reuters that her installation,
Ghost Forest, is based on the real-world “ghost forests” created due to climate change, and “[noted] that more than 50% of Atlantic Cedars on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard have been lost.”