The inaugural event, Women of Coast, launched on April 26 to honor six incredible women. Every day this week, Sam sits down with one of the Women of Coast honorees for a short interview highlighting their achievements and journeys.Today's guest is MacArthur Fellowship Awardee, Elisabeth Turk.Turk has been described by art critics as “part artist, part scientist, part mathematician” for her astounding marble sculptures that defy gravity and make stone appear as delicate as lace. Critics might also add “part naturalist” to the list, because the wonder inherent in the physical world also underlays her other projects, including an intricate, ethereal work, the “Seashell Mandala Murals,” in which Turk has used X-rays and photography to reveal, as she says, “a central, natural architecture” in the shells.She is the commissioned artist for Laguna Art Museum’s Art & Nature Festival 2018, part of the museum’s centennial celebration. For that Turk has been creating a multi-faceted work called “The Shoreline Project.” Learn more about the Shoreline Project:http://theshorelineproject.org/Read about all of the Women of Coast Honorees: www.ocregister.com/2018/04/28/women-of-coast-2/Follow Coast Magazine on Instagram @coastmagazineocLike Coast Magazine on Facebook at www.facebook.com/coastmag/