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By: ste!!a
20-04-2009
design, objects of desire, talking
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Haven’t you always wanted to walk on water?

Haven’t you always wanted to walk on water?

I have admired Maya Lin’s work for two decades. The thought­ful­ness, the scale, and the amaz­ing bal­ance of the dis­ci­pline of archi­tec­ture and the emo­tional vocab­u­lary are con­trolled yet cre­ate both vis­ceral reac­tions that then trig­ger intel­lec­tual responses.
Her inves­ti­ga­tion of water/waves and their dis­tinct states have cre­ated inter­nal con­ver­sa­tions that have man­i­fest them­selves in my hiero­glyph­ics that have come after Egypt­ian Waters.

I dream of walk­ing on the waters, float­ing in the space between the waves.

Now I will make the equiv­a­lent of a pil­grim­age to the Wave Field at Storm King. I will walk on the waves, I will lie and stand between the waves unable to see beyond the lead wave or the fol­low­ing one. I will pho­to­graph my point of view. I will cap­ture video of the chang­ing light. I will stand on the waters sus­pended in time.

THE ARTIST : Maya Lin
THE SPACE : Storm King
EXHIBITION : Wave Field

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  • http://www.lindadubingarfield.com linda dubin garfield

    i am doing a series of mono­types inspired in part by maya lin’s wave­field. i admire her work and have often seen the pat­tern of waves in moun­tain ranges as i’ve vis­ited. using her lat­est land instal­la­tion as an inspi­ra­tion, i am doing a series that com­bine the feel of moun­tains and water. i have included some pho­tos in my face­book album. i look for­ward to vis­it­ing storm king this fall.

    did you take pho­tos? any on facebook?

    • http://www.stellagassaway.com ste!!a

      Hello Linda, wel­come! Thanks for respond­ing to my post. No, I don’t have any images yet. How­ever Mar­garet and I are head­ing up for our annual moun­tain retreat and I’ll bring some back then. I don’t put any intel­lec­tual prop­erty up on Face­book. Their Terms of Ser­vice are Dra­con­ian. ( I link to assets but any­thing I don’t want them to claim some own­er­ship goes where there is Cre­ative Com­mons licensing.They claim own­er­ship to linked con­tent too but that won’t hold water.)

      Look­ing for­ward to what inspi­ra­tion you take from her Wave field. She actu­ally has done a num­ber of other wave instal­la­tions at smaller scale before tak­ing on this project. Under­neath the beauty lies some impres­sive engineering.

  • http://www.lindadubingarfield.com linda dubin garfield

    hello again. have you seen my series on my web­site?
    this link takes you right there:
    http://www.lindadubingarfield.com/ldg/Earth_Waves.html

    • http://www.stellagassaway.com ste!!a

      Yes, Linda gave the work a look. Thanks so much for shar­ing it.

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