A contemporary Chinese-American woman architectural artist,
who at age 21 designed the originally controversial but
now much admired Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
"I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object
placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has
then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and
concern about how we are polluting the air and water of
the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic
time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man."
