The 70 photo trees in the installation symbolize an average of 70,000 wildfires per year in the U.S.

The cables, Grew said, also echo the outline of a tree. As they explore the installation, visitors encounter light, shadow, the photographs and each other in changing ways, a more engaged, arresting experience than photos on a wall. Grew’s carbon prints portray fire’s devastation but also flowers, leaves and other living elements. In Grew’s “Ghost Forest ,” visitors move through pairs of cables suspending the photographs and creating a three-dimensional experience. And photography basically collapses time altogether.” The work portrays forest time, which is different from human time. “The photos are lantern slides framed in glass, which is fragile, like the forest. The ‘Ghost Forest’ will hopefully inspire reflections on climate change, fragility and time. This is a meditative space, and we’re working to preserve that.

“I think it will add a whole different dimension. “It’s a radical change to add sound,” Grew said. 'Ghost Forest' is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society as part of its 50th anniversary and the UO’s Environment Initiative.

For her latest installation of “ Ghost Forest,” April 24-May 4 at the LaVerne Krauss Gallery in Lawrence Hall, Grew has teamed up with sound artist Jon Bellona, a senior instructor at the UO’s School of Music and Dance who teaches audio production.

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