Jean Shin’s philosophy as an artist is simple yet instructive: create with what you have. Over the course of the last 30 years, the Brooklyn-based artist has mapped connections with yarn from donated sweaters, conjured farmscapes using plastic soda bottles, and erected monuments to technological obsolescence out of discarded cell phones.

Shin maintained her pragmatic approach when scouting Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where she noticed two displaced trees—a pin oak and a red oak. Both had lived almost a century before their decline necessitated their removal, and had been sitting off to the side, unceremoniously, for years.