For Maia Ruth Lee’s Large Wall Commission at the Queens Museum, the artist will revisit her glyph series, composed of salvaged steel architectural scraps fused together to create a new lexicon. Originally ornamental embellishments for fences, doors, and windows from the city’s landscape, these metal pieces found at Queens ironwork shops are transformed by Lee through an intuitive welding process. The materiality of these glyphs speak to a diasporic experience: forged from steel mined abroad…