Picture Set of The Month - June - Trees In Football Field

This 2019 installation by Klaus Littman is called  
For Forest: The Unending Attraction of Nature. 

In every press description of deforestation the phrase
'the size of a football field' is used, and few readers know
how big a professional football field is-and they vary.
But between 90-120 metres long 50-100 metres wide.
How many trees might be contained in it? This one held 299. 

Obviously this is an unrepresentative image. It is an installation
and artificiality comes with the territory. Obviously the longer the trees
remain the bigger they get and the forest they are part of matures with them.
So the older the forest cut down the more it is in tree years, where
one year in the life of one tree is the unit of measurement.

This forest was not natural. It was self-limiting by design.
Who knows where the trees went afterwards? If they went nowhere
for a longer life then art is often like that. But if it helps anyone
to imagine what 'a football field of trees' looks like long after
it is gone, then it's job as an installation is still being done.
All images from here, photographer; Gerard Maurer.

If none of this moves you, then please listen here
to Brian Wilson cosmic ode to global warming,
plastics, and forest fires 'A Day In The Life of a Tree'.  

 

Picture Set of The Month - November - The County Down Floods

Downpatrick submerged in flood waters Nov 2023  

These floods were the worst in living memory.
Not even the oldest, longest trading, local traders
could remember scenes like it. 

In Newry a boat would have got you further than a car.

The canal, central to Newry, flooded the commercial
centre of the town to such a degree that some traders,
and many charities, will not be back. 

If that car belonged to the landlord of the property
then that landlord is sunk twice or three times over,
with how their neighbours trading prospects are sunk too.