Artist Maya Lin reveals her approach to the artwork for the Confluence Project. Using insights from the journals of Lewis and Clark, Lin's installations and landscape work at the seven sites along the Columbia River will measure the changes—cultural, physical and ecological—to each place over the past two centuries.
Follow along, from the Pacific Ocean to the dramatic cliffs of Chief Timothy Park, as the artist talks about her process and her inspiration.
Quicktime format. Running time: 09:34

Maya Lin sketches on a piece of basalt
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