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Old Tree by Pamela Rosenkranz, alien, yet a symbol of nature in the heart of the urban landscape. Its branches evoke the arteries of the body – it pulses. Magenta/red, the opposite color of green, an emphatic visual punctuation mark surrounded by the vestiges of industrial New York now supplanted by the glass towers of Hudson Yards and the information economy. In the foreground, an odd collection of disks lie on the ground. There are several pristine, new forklifts, and three young women sit on the tailgate of a pickup truck. A portable restroom trailer has doors for male, female, and male/female. What is going on here?