Whether transplanting forests of dying trees or moving mounds of earth, artist Maya Lin is pushing into new terrain 40 years after she burst onto the scene with her Vietnam Veterans Memorial
This is the squirrel condo,” Maya Lin says, pointing to an English elm tree pocked with holes, a ring of almond shells tossed like so many used takeout containers around its base. She’s standing in Madison Square Park, seven acres in Manhattan’s Flatiron District that encompass an oval lawn, a dog run, a Shake Shack and a reflecting pool lined with benches.
Lin has a soft spot for squirrels, and she got to know this crew last spring while installingLike many of Lin’s large outdoor sculptures,is made in and of nature—in this case 49 Atlantic white cedars between 40 and 45 feet tall. Victims of extreme weather, including saltwater incursion, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the trees are slowly dying, and she’s arranged them in a skeletal copse at the park’s center, a hollowed-out reminder of the disastrous effects of climate change.
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