With the opening of frieze Senior Editor Evan Moffitt
Evan Moffitt On 10 May, you will unveil
Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park in New York: a sculptural installation and monument to the world’s dying forests. How did you first become engaged with the issue of deforestation and how will the work approach the specific ecological concerns of New York?
Maya Lin My earth-based, site-specific outdoor works, such as the
Storm King Wavefield [2007–08] or the earth line drawing I recently installed at Princeton University [
The Princeton Line, 2018], are embedded in the earth and of a permanent nature. Installing something temporary in Madison Square Park at first threw me. I considered doing a piece with living trees that you could move through, akin to a willow walk. Then, while hiking in Colorado with my husband two summers ago, I saw swathes of forest that had been devastated by beetle infestation, because the winters hadn’t been cold enough to kill off the beetl
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sam johnson, of p.o.w. shared the prison cell with mccain there to honor him. what will be next of this? reporter: first, senator mccain s body will lie in state over night here at the rotunda u.s. capitol. they ll keep watch throughout the night of his body. in the morning tomorrow he ll be driven to the national cathedral for the service there. the hurst will pause briefly at the vietnam veteran memorial and his wife cindy will get out and lay the wreath and to the national cathedral and that s where he ll hear speeches from his two formal rivals, barack obama and george w. bush. he asked them personally to deliver these speeches and on sunday, the u.s. naval academy and where he ll be buried in