VIDEO: MAYA LIN

I feel compelled to share the work of one of my favorite artists today. Maya Lin's first artistic creation was the Vietnam Vet Memorial in D. C.--her design was picked in a blind drawing, and at age 21 she was able to realize what she now calls her first landscape.

Her more recent work called 'Wavefield,' installed at the aerospace building at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is one of my favs. It's based on the Stokes wave, a natural occurring topography on the surface of the ocean. Most of her works convey imagined topographies, with varying amounts of reliance on nature and laws of nature.