Maya Lin lecture

I really enjoyed seeing Maya Lin in Hendrix. She seems to be intimately concerned with many different aspects of how an art piece or installation interacts with the viewer. By blurring the line between art and architechture, she makes people question whether to view a space as art or to view it as an architechtural form. The piece I liked the most was probably the wavy hills in front of the Aerospace building; I like how from far away they look interesting and from close up you can sit in them and relax. Her manner of lecturing really conveyed the emotions she was feeling at the time of making her works and what her overall philosophies towards them are. It was reaffirming to see that one can be a successful artist without being strictly confined to one medium, which has been a problem for me in the past.