Making Waves
“Making architecture is like writing a novel; making a work of art is like a poem.”
~ Maya Lin, from “Maya Lin’s ‘Wave Field’,” video produced by Erik Olsen & Carol Kino, New York Times, November 2008
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,” 1993. Forty-three tons of recycled, shattered automobile safety glass. Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus
"The Wave Field," 1995. Shaped earth; 100 x 100 feet. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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,” 2006, Duraflake particleboard, 20 blocks, 36 x 36 in. each (68 x 210 x 269 in. overall)
“Storm King Wavefield,” 2008. Earth and grass; 240,000 square feet (11-acre site)
“Always in Its Element, No Matter the Weather,” by Holland Cotter, New York Times, September 6, 2010
“Where the Ocean Meets the Mountains,” by Holland Cotter, New York Times, May 7, 2009