It is a fashionable theme, having inspired exhibitions in Europe and the United States, although it has special relevance to this boom town, a city in transition where choked freeways knot their way through a hazy forest of buildings in all stages of construction.
The book not only featured illustrations drawn by Enami, but also included a story titled Boy Czeslaw, Fellows of the Forest (of Buildings).
So Mr. VanWanseele moved to New York City, a place where American Indians are virtually invisible and where the teeming streets and the forests of buildings could not be more different from the expansive vistas of his reservation.
IT'S as lost as Hansel and Gretel in the forest of taller buildings east of City Hall Park, but the diminutive Morse Building, at 140 Nassau Street, was once one of the tallest in the city, all 10 stories of it.
On one side loomed a forest of office buildings.
Its 1.6 million residents hide in a forest of tall buildings, and even the city's elite take the subway.
"Boy With Pigeons" (1934) is among the most accomplished of these urban rooftop vistas, depicting a boy releasing pigeons among a forest of apartment buildings.
Public officials were incredulous that a city that lures tens of thousands of immigrants each year and where a forest of new buildings has sprouted could really have recorded such a puny increase.
Marc Jahr, president of the city's Housing Development Corporation, stands with the city's commissioner of housing preservation and development, Mathew M. Wambua, and jabs at a forest of apartment buildings.
The rooms, described as "studios," are large, with sofas and kitchenettes, meant, no doubt, to appeal to the conventioneers and businesses in the new forest of office buildings sprouting around it.
"Nowadays, cities all over the world are just a forest of tall buildings; there is practically no room left for curves to freely twist and bend," Wu once said.
