Maya Lin Jesse Frohman and courtesy of the artist
An immersive installation that visualises the bleak effects of climate change by the US artist and environmental activist Maya Lin, which was slated to open in June last year, will open at Madison Square Park in New York this spring.
The work was postponed in the “earliest weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, when there was extreme uncertainty” around possible restrictions on public gatherings, and “in consideration of staff, the artist’s team, the installation crew and park-goers”, says Brooke Kamin Rapaport, the chief curator of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
The work comprises a forest of around 40 towering desiccated white-cedar trees that will be “planted” in the oval lawn of the park to create an ominous micro-landscape that references the impact of climate change on the environment. Lin has also developed a soundscape that will allow visitors traversing the installation to listen to