Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Maya Lin

1 WAVE MOVEMENT How can we tell where orie wave ends and another begins? I've spent hours staring at water, both in the open ocean and in rivers around the world, trying to isolate its movement - how it swells, forms a discernible shape, and then fades out into another form. Like the motion of schools of fish or murmurations of starlings, these forms show the connection between organic and inorganic natural systems, no matter how dissimilar. Making these affinities visible is of great concern to me - for example, to speak of a river system as a singular body or to reveal the topography below the water's surface. We are less inclined to pollute the things we are able to see.

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