Periodically I do a little searching to see what new projects Maya Lin is involved with (and sometimes I write up a post about it). There is a two year old New Yorker profile that I don’t believe I’d seen before. The middle details the harsh politics she had to cope with in the creation of the Vietnam War Memorial, and it is capped on both ends with her reactions to the World Trade Center disaster which took place soon after her efforts to shed her image as a maker of monuments. More recently Lin has been in the news for her involvement with the Confluence Project, an effort “to explore the history, art, environmental issues and cultures of the Columbia River Basin from the days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to today and beyond.” She has also been working with Yellowstone National Park to help realize her pet project on extinct species. It’s been over twenty years since the Yale undergrad became the unlikely winner of the Vietnam War Memorial design competition.