Weber House 1993

Maya Lin made this building, Weber House, and when you look at the roof of this house, it feels like water, like tides that are almost still, and it's the dark that makes it that way. I think of the shadows in Giorgio Morandi's bottles, the ones that make them so heavy. And I'm thinking that Lin made this roof out of something dark and reflective. Maybe she's saying that a house is actually a heavy thing, like, physically and emotionally heavy. The materials are smooth and flat. They look hard, like something that could hurt you. I wonder what it must have been like for Lin to make this and what she was thinking about. I wonder if she wants people to be happy and to be light. Or if she's saying the thing about being an adult is living with heavy things? But what do I know? Artists make stuff, then they die, and everyone else gets to say what it means.