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Artist Maya Lin’s Tries to Showcase Different Side of Nature (CBS)
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Maya Lin became a household name when she won a national design competition for the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. She has designed other acclaimed works, but her latest creation won’t be around for long, and instead of a tribute to our past, it’s a warning about our future. Anthony Mason shows how it all came to be.