Artscope & Boston Art Review of Seaside Chestnuts

May Babcock (b. 1986, lives and works in Pawtucket, RI), Seaside Chestnuts, 2026, Chinese-American chestnut trees, flax, recycled fencing, milkweed, black walnut, goldenrod, and beeswax. Commissioned for The Land Tells Our Stories, an Art & the Landscape exhibition by The Trustees, MA. Photo by Chris Cardoza, Doza Visuals

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I'm thrilled to share that my installation Seaside Chestnuts has been positively reviewed by Carolyn Wirth in Artscope magazine, and featured in Boston Art Review's "Beyond Boston: Eleven Summer Exhibitions Worth the Drive." !!! 😊

Both focus on The Trustees exhibition The Land Tells Our Stories, of which this wild chestnut-y project is part of.

“The artist uses farm fencing coated with a colorful, flax-based paper pulp, to create protective structures encircling 11 young chestnut trees specially planted, with the American Chestnut Foundation, for her exhibit....Babcock’s work is both hopeful and dire, rescuing survivors of one species but realizing their fragile home may be inundated by the ocean.” — Carolyn Wirth, "The Land Remembers: Landscape Becomes a Lens for Trustees' Stewardship," Artscope

Directions & Hours

The address is ​396 Moose Hill St, Sharon, MA​. You'll park in the parking lot right next to the meadow where the sculptures are, which is next to the Cooperative Nature School.

So, no need to tromp through the forest to see this work 😂.

It's open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset, and FREE to all.