Artwork: Pamel Rosenkranz, Old Tree, Highline, new York, 2021
Pamela Rosenkranz’s recent commission for the Highline, New York, is a stunning, vibrant and mythic sculpture of a red-pink tree. Old Tree references the myths of ancient trees connecting heaven and earth, but set within the concrete, glass, tar and steel of the city, it’s a stark reminder of the blood and roots of what makes this world liveable and beautiful. Trees are fundamental to life, and Old Tree wonderfully connects the blood, vessels and tissues of the human circulatory system with that of the tree which sustains our lives. And it’s a reciprocal relationship.