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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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Designer and architect Maya Lin is getting ready to unveil a new art project in May called Ghost Forest, a tree installation about the effects of climate change in Madison Square Park.
The piece, which was originally planned for summer 2020, will now be open to the public from May 10th through November 14th, 2021.
According to a press release,
Ghost Forest derives its name from the devastating natural phenomenon in which vast tracts of forestland that have died off due to extreme weather events related to climate change as well as sea-level rise and saltwater infiltration.
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