Circumference of Beech Tree

Alan Sonfist is an American artist whose practice centers on environmental restoration and land reclamation as sculptural and conceptual work. Beginning in the 1970s, he initiated site-specific interventions that reclaimed neglected urban and suburban landscapes, transforming them into ecological and historical monuments. His Time Landscape project in New York City, begun in 1978, restored a section of lower Manhattan to its pre-colonial forest state through decades of careful planting and cultivation. Sonfist's work treats ecological recovery as both aesthetic experience and social intervention, establishing a model for art that functions simultaneously as environmental activism and historical testimony.

New York, NY, USA