Tim,
Hilarious? I don't know, maybe we need to get the Blue Man Group's take on it to find the humor.
Are you just hurt because she plays in the dirt with bulldozers, but she gets to call her work "the piece" "the installation" or my favorite, the "anti-monument?" And you just call yours "the project"
Why not collaborate with Ms. Lin on your next piece "The Maya Lin Links at Storm King Art Center"?
But truly it seems here you have an untapped and rich vein of new marketing initiatives for golf course architects.
"Seen from afar the piece does suggest an expanse of ocean waves that have been frozen in place, as well as many other things: snowdrifts, a Zen moss garden, perhaps a cluster of the American Indian burial mounds that can be found in the hills of southeastern Ohio, where Ms. Lin grew up."
“It’s a man-made landscape, bringing gravel in and reshaping it,” said David R. Collens, the director of Storm King. “That’s the untold story about the art center.” And as soon as Ms. Lin saw the pit, he said, “her eyes lit up, and that was it for her.”
“I always knew that I wanted to culminate the series with a field that literally, when you were in it, you became lost inside it,” she said, “so the waves had to become much larger than you.”
"Because the site was officially a mine, Mr. Collens had to secure permission from the state Environmental Conservation Department to reclaim it as an artwork. The department has strongly supported the project. Because Ms. Lin is “a committed environmentalist,” as she put it, she was intent on using minimal intervention to turn it into an artwork and making the most of what was already there."
“You need to find a contractor who’s sympathetic and really supportive,” she said, “because they’re basically sculpting the landscape with a bulldozer.”
Wow, all that is from the first few paragraphs of the article...I mean piece.