Ghost Forest Seedlings: Ghost Forest Seedling #244

Ghost Forest Seedlings is Maya Lin’s first-ever generative art project, featuring unique prints and paired digital works. The project extends Lin’s acclaimed 2021 installation, Ghost Forest, presented at Madison Square Park in New York. Both projects exemplify Lin’s lifelong environmental activism, in which she has used art to examine the Earth’s vulnerability and the impact of the climate crisis. Ghost Forest Seedlings is produced by Pace Verso, the hub for integrated Web3 projects at Pace Gallery, in collaboration with experimental Web3 art studio E.A.T__WORKS.

Each Ghost Forest Seedlings artwork includes a unique 23” x 23” print, printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper and signed by Lin. Visit the FAQ section on the Pace Verso website for more information on claiming your unique print: https://verso.pacegallery.com/faq

Ghost Forest Seedlings captures the organic growth patterns of a living, underground network of tree roots. The artworks depict a seed or group of seeds growing into an intricate root pattern, or seedling. Eschewing most computer-derived growth patterns, which create geometric and fractal patterning, the algorithm Lin has created generates artworks with growth patterns that are as varied as naturally growing organisms, reflecting the artist’s deep sensitivity to the complexity, beauty, and fragility of the natural world and its interconnected systems. Each of the 500 unique works includes three components: a signed 23” x 23” print of the final seedling; a generative NFT that shows the seedling’s evolution in real-time; and a video timelapse tracing the seedling’s complete growth progression.

An artist, architect, and environmental activist, Lin rose to prominence in the United States after winning a nationwide design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1982. The artist, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President Barack Obama in 2016, has been commissioned to create a sculpture for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, expected to open in 2025. Most recently, she was chosen to design a new performing arts studio building for the Fisher Center at Bard College in New York state. In 2022, TIME magazine named Lin one of the year’s most influential people.