Haven’t you imag­ined walk­ing 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 both cre­ate vis­ceral reac­tions that then trig­ger intel­lec­tual responses.
Her inves­ti­ga­tion of water/waves and their dis­tinct states have cre­ated rekin­dled the inter­nal con­ver­sa­tions about water that have man­i­fest them­selves in my hiero­glyph­ics that became 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 them 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
DRAWINGS : egypt­ian waters