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A sign pleads with viewers to “Please help us
preserve” this environmental artwork by Maya Lin, the famed architect-designer of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in DC—this
only five years after the installation of Wavefield
at Storm King Art Center in upstate
NY.
The other day, my post about Roy Lichtenstein’s Mermaid
discussed one of the more than 100 outdoor sculptures at Storm King. I’m afraid
that Wavefield is already in much
more fragile condition than Mermaid
or the other works on art on these sprawling grounds.
The sign on the site indicates that walking is not permitted “due to the recent rainfall.” But, as you can see, there is another, more pervasive cause: the encroachment of masses of people on the four acres of this environmental reclamation project. (At one time, it was a gravel pit.)
The sign on the site indicates that walking is not permitted “due to the recent rainfall.” But, as you can see, there is another, more pervasive cause: the encroachment of masses of people on the four acres of this environmental reclamation project. (At one time, it was a gravel pit.)
I urge any interested readers to go now to see these
seven rows of rolling waves of earth and grass. It’s hard for security to be
everywhere on Storm King’s nearly 500 acres, so, from what I saw on my visit
this past Sunday, people have taken to walk on Lin's work with impunity.
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