I can’t believe that it’s been 25 years since she cre­ated the Vietnam Veterns Memorial in Washington DC. This is the largest of her Wave Field series. This is a field where the waves rise 12 to 15 feet above your head.

Storm King Wavefield, 2007–2008
Earth and grass; 240,000 square feet (11-acre site)

This new per­ma­nent instal­la­tion at Storm King in New York opens to the pub­lic May 9, 2009, this spring. An addi­tional spe­cial exhi­bi­tion, Maya Lin: Bodies of Water, will be on view in Storm King’s museum through November 15, 2009. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures roughly a dozen works that reflect the artist’s inter­est in water in its var­i­ous states. The works will include instal­la­tion, sculp­ture, pho­tographs, mod­els, and draw­ings, among them exam­ples related to the devel­op­ment of Storm King Wavefield.

Several works also draw atten­tion to the plight of sites around the world that suf­fer from human encroach­ment and indus­trial pollution.

THE COLLECTION : Storm King : Wave Field
ARTIST’S SITE : Maya Lin

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Standing on the ocean — Maya Lin, Wave Field

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