Walking and talking are on the menu at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on what, with luck, will be a pleasant Sunday afternoon. Jill Platner, whose installation "Talking With Trees" will open Saturday with a reception from noon to 3, will be on hand Sunday at 2 for a conversation about her work with Sally Singer, the president of Art + Commerce, an agency that represents artists in various disciplines.
After the talk, Ms. Platner will lead a walk through the Dawn Redwood Forest, where her sculptural installation is deployed -- an appropriate term for more than 60 elongated metal sculptures in various sizes, hanging from tree branches there. With curves and bends that replicate the patterns of nature, the sculptures move with the wind.
Ms. Platner has been making jewelry and sculpture in New York City since 1993. Her metalwork is inspired in part by spending time as a child in the forests, fields, and streams of Massachusetts and Maine.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
A different take on trees will be offered by Tucker Marder, a multimedia artist from Springs with an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, who will talk about the origins of that hamlet's Folly Tree Arboretum at 4 p.m.
The arboretum, which Mr. Marder established in 2013 "to promote an exuberant environmental ethic through art and science," is an archive of sui generis trees including a sycamore that went to the moon, a tree whose fruits have become evolutionarily useless, an oak tree that owns itself, and many odd varieties of weeping conifer. Folly Tree was featured in a 2023 New York Times article titled "The Strangest Trees Grow in East Hampton."
Audience members have the option of heading to the arboretum, located at 751 Springs-Fireplace Road, for a tour and light reception at 5. Tickets for the talk are $35, $25 for members. For both the talk and tour the cost is $55 and $45.
