opening in may of this year will be 'storm king wavefield' a new installation
by maya lin at the storm king art center mountainville, new york.

the project encompasses an eleven acre site, with the earthwork covering four acres
at the southwest border of the storm king art center in mountainville, new york.
formerly a gravel pit the site is an environmental reclamation project. the work
maximized the soil from the existing site and was created with a naturally made
drainage system beneath the soil. grass was planted that are native and require minimal
watering needs stressing the sustainable nature of the work. the carbon footprint
of the construction of the piece was calculated and will be fully offset by the planting
of 260 indigenous trees.

the wavefield is comprised of seven rows of rolling waves of earth and grass. the
waves range in height from ten to fifteen feet, with a trough- to-trough distance
of approximately forty feet. the work at storm king is the largest site specific installation
that lin has created and it marks a culmination in her series dedicated to the exploration
of water wave formations.