Ghost Forest week launches in Trafalgar Square, London
If you are in London this week you must witness the ‘Ghost Forest Art Project’ that artist Angela Palmer has bravely installed at Trafalgar Square, bringing ten giant rainforest tree stumps from sustainably logged forest in Africa straight to the heart of London. The intention of the project to raise public awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change. The idea 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”. On Sunday the tree stumps will head to Copenhagen.