Am I missing something here? From today until Sunday, Trafalgar Square is hosting an art installation entitled Ghost Forest, which apparently seeks to raise awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change. The installation consists of ten enormous rainforest tree stumps (only some of which “fell naturally in adverse weather conditions”) hand-picked by the artist during “several” trips to Ghana and then transported to London from Ghana at considerable cost, both monetary and in fuel-intensive transport terms.
The installation will later be transported to Copenhagen and displayed in December to coincide with the UN COP15 Climate Change Conference. I’m at a loss to explain how several return flights to Ghana plus transportation on an industrial scale from Africa to Copnehagen via London is a suitable way of highlighting climate change and how public behaviour needs to change drastically to lessen its impact.
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“Am I missing something here?”
Probably
Didn’t you know – climate change is only for the little people – not for the airy fairy art world.
Obviously Appealing won’t miss anything until he’s 6ft under the water – unless of course like me he lives on one of the biggest hills in London. Then he will miss the days when he had a house and air to breathe.
I on the other hand will be building my castle to keep the ’smokers’ out – a la Waterworld (Kevin Costner).
….it will be like Noye’s Flud all over again….