Monuments, on the other hand, make this futile attempt. Her rejection of commemoration and monumentality grew from the childhood experience of traveling great distances in a station wagon as an Army brat. The communication between the road and natural landscape generated ideas about how land is divided, forms of construction, and ruins. She not only draws inspiration from the site, but the develops the project to enhance it. A more recent project, a combination of piers and bridges over a wetland, mimics the complexity of a construction site.
Piers descend to the very level of the water.
Metal bridges with only one railing extend into the cat o' nine tails. Similar to her Battery Park Esplanade of 1985, this project takes daring a step further. The interactive, visceral qualities of her work have raised issues of liability and accessibility as of late. Miss has completed projects across the United States and abroad. Her sites are grassy and urban, having completed a project for New York's Transit system that treats the Union Station subway stop as an archaeological site to be peeled.