Standing in Trafalgar Square for one week only was an unusual art exhibition featuring the large tree stumps from nine different species sourced from Suhuma forest reserve, a commercially logged tropical forest in Western Ghana.
The fully grown trees would have reached around 50 metres – the same height as Nelson’s Column.
The hefty stumps distributed around the square were designed to raise questions about the future of the world’s vulnerable forests, although we found ourselves wondering how much of a carbon footprint was created by lugging the things here.
The Ghost Forest installation finished on Sunday Nov 22 2009 and headed off to a public square in Copenhagen, to be seen during the UN Climate Change Conference.
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