An Environmental Statement
Written by: Aron Brown
As BBC news released in one of their articles: Ghost trees ‘haunt’ London square Oxford artist Angela Palmer has turned London’s Trafalgar Square into a powerful environmental statement. She has placed 10 stumps from naturally fallen trees into Trafalgar Square. The stumps, which still have their roots, were taken from a forest reserve in western Ghana a country that has lost 90% of its natural rain forests! Also in the installation are laser beams that will show the average height of these trees in the wild in comparison to Nelson’s Column. The artist had this to say about her piece:
The concept is to present a series of rainforest tree stumps as a ‘ghost forest’ – using the negative space created by the missing trunks as a metaphor for climate change, the absence representing the removal of the world’s ‘lungs’ through continued deforestation.
I think she has done a great job of bringing attention to the growing problem of deforestation in the world.
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