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Article: Hybrid field: Maya Lin's latest group of rolling knolls, a permanent installation at Storm King Art Center, draws on the rich legacy of Land art and culminates her own previous research.(NATURE: CULTURE)
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- Art in America
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- October 1, 2009
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STORM KING WAVEFIELD, Maya Lin's new earthen environment at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Highlands of New York, features a clever synthesis of forms--wavelike swells meeting verdant expanse--that just begins to suggest all the other conjunctions called up by her design. At first viewing, the work appears to be pure nature. Its seven undulating rows take up roughly one third of Lin's 11-acre site at the southwest border of the sprawling grounds, which encompass lawns, woodlands, hills and fields. Lin has fashioned knolls that rise between 10 to 15 feet, alternating with uniformly spaced troughs to create berms from 305 to 368 feet in ...
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