Installed in Madison Square Park, these skeletal trees express the devastation of climate change.
Maya Lin, Ghost Forest, 2021 (Madison Square Park, New York City), forty-nine Atlantic white cedar trees, 40–45 feet high, variable. © Maya Lin
Additional resources
This installation at the Madison Square Park Conservancy
Ghost Forest, from Maya Lin’s website
Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest on PBS
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