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Considering the intersections of poverty and climate disaster, Study of The Last Tree No. 6 is part of an installation that imagines a world where humanity has devastated the Earth’s natural resources in the pursuit of greed. A tree stump sits in a metal pail, roots slumped over the edge and reaching from holes in the sides into nothingness. Reingold asks of the work, “Will it matter in the end? Who knows? I mean, we may never be around, humanity may not be around. Earth will still be here, and finally it'll recover by the time we're gone, and there'll be some other new age that will appear. But meanwhile, we're still here and it means something to us.” The stump, lonely and desolate, serves as a call to action. Who is left to care for the last tree, and what happens if we don’t?