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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.”
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Artist Maya Lin s Ghost Forest installation in New York warns of the danger of climate change
11 May 2021 People photograph Ghost Forest an art installation designed by artist Maya Lin in Madison Square Park.
In the centre of New York City s spring greenery, artist Maya Lin has installed the barren, brown trunks of 49 dead Atlantic White Cedar trees in a Manhattan park as a Ghost Forest to warn of the danger of climate change and the threat of rising sea water.
This is a grove of Atlantic Cedars. victims of saltwater inundation from rising seas due to climate change, said Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.