Maya Lin

Maya Lin is an artist and architectural designer.  At age 21 she won the contest to design the Viet Nam wall.  She had designed the wall as a project for a class at Yale, never realizing it would propel her into controversial fame for the next several decades, including sending the art world into a spin.

2x4 Landscape

Yesterday Dave and I went to the Orlando Museum of Art to see Maya Lin's exhibit called "A History of Water."  One of Maya Lin's passions is the environment.  She believes, like many of us, that we are headed for a huge water crisis.

A body of water, showing depth and
 pollution.

I was prepared to do some major eye rolling because the largest and most controversial part of the exhibit is a sculpture covering an entire room and made from 72,000 pieces of 2x4 wood.  By the way, these pieces are not interconnected.  Instead of rolling my eyes I was filled with emotion.  I was mesmerized.

Everything else we saw dealt directly with water; rivers, oceans and so forth.  A mind boggling, sad and beautiful experience.  All designed to move and educate us.

In Forum this morning, guess what was on the agenda?  Water!

Rain drops.


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