Frequent Q commenter Bob Marvin's landscape photographs are in a PLG Arts three-person
landscape show, along with color photographs by Yoshiko Mori and
paintings by Noel Hefele. The show, at Tugboat Tea Company, 546 Flatbush
Avenue, near Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, will
run through mid-October. The opening reception is this Thursday,
September 24th, from 6–9 PM. Come one, come all!
422 Trees
Landscapes by Noel Hefele, Robert Marvin, and Yoshiko Mori
A
recent Yale-led study put the approximate number of trees on earth at
3.04 trillion, over 7 times the previous global estimate of 400 billion.
Instead of 61 trees for every human on planet earth, the new estimate
is 422 trees. While good news, this study also claims a 46% decline in
tree population since human civilization began.
Roughly
7–8 trees provide the oxygen one person requires for a year of
breathing. US urban forests sequester over 700 million tons of
carbon. Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either
flushed or dumped in landfills every day (roughly 10 percent of that
total is attributable to toilet paper). Prospect Park lost over 500
trees during Hurricane Sandy. Worldwide, our net loss is about 10
billion trees a year.
How
do you value a tree? You only have 422 trees, knowing that, does it
change how you look at an individual tree? 422 sounds like a lot, but is
it?
We
are exhibiting three contrasting interpretations to landscape and the
trees that live in them. Art can provide empathic aesthetic and
emotional connections to these living beings, highlighting small moments
of awareness and appreciation. Our trees can fade into the background
of everyday life, but they are ever-present and necessary collaborators
on a finite planet.
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