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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Waves of Grass: Maya Lin's 'Wave Field' [Watch (HLS stream): Waves of Grass: Maya Lin's 'Wave Field'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VelAJX03.m3u8) (5:13)  _Published 2010-08-10. TIME Art Critic Richard Lacayo visits the Storm King Art Center, where Maya Lin's Wavefield encourages active participation_ --- Jul 27, 2023 2:24 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Lin-Manuel Miranda and Luis Miranda | TIME100 Talks](/video/GMdYAqrm/) ### Lin-Manuel Miranda and Luis Miranda | TIME100 Talks [FIRSTS Maya Lin ](/video/Iol92UTl/) ### FIRSTS Maya Lin [TIME 100: Lin-Manuel Miranda](/video/CkkpSse6/) ### TIME 100: Lin-Manuel Miranda --- ## Transcript >> Hi. I'm Richard Lacayo, the art critic of Time Magazine, and I'm here today at the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson River Valley about an hour north of Manhattan- magnificent 500 acre setting for sculpture. Some of the art at Storm King is meant to stand in sharp contrast to its natural setting, like the massive steel assemblages of Mark di Suvero or Alexander Calder's blazing orange stabile- Five Swords. Other works draw explicitly upon the forms and materials of nature like Luba, the new work by Ursula von Rydingsvard with its blocks of chiseled cedar, and Andy Goldsworthy's 'Storm King Wall'- more than 2000 feet of undulating stone gathered from the Storm King property. But one of the most beguiling works of art here at Storm King is Maya Lin's 'Wave Field,' an earthwork that straddles the line between landscape art and landscape itself. Maya Lin is the artist best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D. C. >> This is that one, which is the scale of person of this big. >> Some time ago, the directors of Storm King approached her and asked her to a site specific work for their sculpture park. They may not have expected the results they would get. We talked to Maya recently about 'Wave Field' at her studio in SoHo in Lower Manhattan. >> One of the goals with what I'm doing is can I change your reference point. What can I do to slightly alter your perception of a place and if I do that, will you pay- will you like take a look at that place again 'cause we all kinda can walk through a meadow and we all sort of understand what a meadow is like, so have we in a way stopped looking at it? >> To this is Maya Lin's 'Wave Field'. It's seven rows of undulating hills that were constructed over a period of time in the space that was at one time a gravel pit. Lin is working on what you might call " sacred ground" here. In the 19th century, the Hudson River Valley of Upstate New York where Storm King Art Center is located was the birthplace of what's called the Hudson River School- a group of landscape painters including Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and John Frederick Kensett who left us an enduring image of the area as a sort of earthly paradise. With Storm King's 11- acre 'Wave Field', Lin is also working as a landscape artist but instead of depicting landscape, she's shaping it using the actual landscape as her medium. And in that respect, her work has affinities with the earthworks of artists like Robert Smithson in his 'Spiral Jetty'- a 1500- foot coil of rock and soil installed in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1970- and Michael Heizer's 'Double Negative' from that same year- a 1500- foot long trench, blasted 50 feet into the Nevada desert. 'Wave Field' is meant to be experienced for many different perspectives. You don't simply stand in one place and look at it, you walk through it. You're absorbed into it. You're immersed in it. It is not just a work of art but it's also a landscape in itself. As you climb through it, you'll also discover that 'Wave Field' is the kind of strenuous work. It's not something you simply sit back and contemplate, but it's something that your whole body experiences. You have to climb and clamber and after a while there's some heavy breathing involved on a warm day. >> I think I partly am completely and always have been as a kid- and I don't know about you but when you find out as a child that the earth isn't flat, that the earth is round- >> Uh huh. >> And you go around [ unk ] and you're trying to see the roundness of the earth, and you can of course never find it then you're always thinking to do. So I'm very much interested in what I would say the level of perception, which is right about here. It's right at your peripheral. Are people gonna notice that the same physical piece is going to change drastically in scale and experience as they're walking through it? >> Perhaps the best way to know that is to ask them. This group of students took a day off from Vassar College to meander among the waves. >> I don't, I feel like I'm in a sea of hills. -[ unk ] sort of like the natural land but special. [ unk ] >> From a distance, definitely you assume that it's actually much smaller [ unk ]. In the picture, it's- >> Uh huh. >> it doesn't do it justice but when you really come up to it, you realize the steeping climb of the hills and [ unk ]. >> Yeah, it also suggests a lot of blueprint [ unk ] it kinda- it makes me feel like you're rocking around a little bit. >> Very. >> I love feeling a part of it. I love feeling a part of the part and it's one thing to see it from up on the hill and be like, " Wow ," how is this made, like how is this put down here but then to actually experience it it's different. >> This is Richard Lacayo, the art critic of Time Magazine. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Waves of Grass: Maya Lin's 'Wave Field'","description":"TIME Art Critic Richard Lacayo visits the Storm King Art Center, where Maya Lin's Wavefield encourages active participation","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VelAJX03/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-08-10T21:11:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VelAJX03.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/VelAJX03/","duration":"PT5M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/VelAJX03/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```