CLIMATE FILM This film was unveiled at Copenhagen and was supported by people who supported the American Response to Climate Change at The Wild Center.
Here's Fast Company's story from Denmark on the short movie:
"Artist and architect Maya Lin is perhaps best known for her memorials--a series that includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Her latest memorial, a multi-sited, multi-medium piece called "What is Missing," is about an issue close to Lin's heart: conservation. And today in Copenhagen, Lin is unveiling "Unchopping a Tree", one of the most moving pieces thus far from the larger "What is Missing" memorial.
Maya Lin - Unchopping A Tree from Unchop A Tree on Vimeo.
The video, which is inspired by a W.S. Merwin poem of the same name, focuses on how we would feel if deforestation came to the city parks that we love the most. Lin decided to debut the video at the Support REDD+ Gala in Copenhagen to highlight the importance of enacting REDD, a UN program that will pay developing countries to cut down on deforestation. "I want to get out the message that by preventing deforestation, we can reduce emissions and save species," Lin said." |
