Margaret LeJeune

Thirteen Hours to Fall examines the climate crisis through an investigation of present-day and emerging ghost forests along the mid-Atlantic coast. Ghost forests, large expanses of dead and dying trees caused by saltwater intrusion, are visible markers of rising sea levels and long-term environmental change. This project traces how the region has been transformed over the past 400 years by overlapping forces including colonial capitalism, extractive timber industries, plantation agriculture, and on-going climate change. Together, these converging influences have driven widespread tree loss, diminished carbon storage and biodiversity, and produced deep social and ecological consequences for local communities. This project invites viewers to consider our multilayered and complicated relationship to the land.

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Two Trees Marigram

Harbingers (altarpiece)

Map Lines

Lead Line (installation)

Absence of Knowing

Tidal Moons

Tree Line, Tide Line

Map Overlay

Stumpy Point Highway