Cityforest, replanted Christmas trees, Tompkins Square Park, NYC, January 1997.

Every year in January, heaps of discarded but still freshly smelling trees appear on the streets of NYC. My proposal was to gather them up and to 'replant' them in a public park, to extend their purpose as decorations after the holiday season and to bring them back to their natural state. The project was picked up by the Public Art Fund who made a serious attempt to produce it, but it was quickly canceled by the NYC fire brigade who did not like the idea of a forest of dead trees. The small group on the picture is what I managed to put together myself.