“Ghost Forest” is an ongoing photographic documentation that began in the summer of 2022. Depicting the emergence of ghost forests along the mid-Atlantic coasts, particularly in the DelMarVa area. When salt water is pushed inland into freshwater ecosystems due to storms, rising sea level, and climate change, the salinity of the soil becomes too high. The Atlantic White Cedar is particularly susceptible to the high salinity, and is the first species to die. The skeletal white trunks standing against lush landscape are sounding the alarm of a changing climate. This stark contrast is both beautiful and disconcerting, creating visual and literal gaps in the density of the forest. My hope for this project is to bring visibility to this pernicious consequence of climate change. The large scale photographs are dramatic and meant to hold the viewer’s attention with their size and contrast. I continue to expand this series in the effort to call attention to this situation and asks the viewer to reflect on the loss of tree species, farmable soil, increased flooding and climate change overall. I hope to engage with people who are aware of the more overt dangers of climate change, but may not have knowledge of this specific consequence. The communities that live, work and visit our coastal areas may pass through ghost forests regularly, but may not realize what they are indicative of. This exhibition proposal is an interdisciplinary conversation between art, climate change, environmental science and the history of this coastal landscape