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Maya Lin captured the attention of the public when, as a
senior at Yale University
in 1981 she submitted the winning design for the United States Vietnam
Veteran’s Memorial in Washington,
D.C.
Recent smaller-scale sculptures are more
personal expressions, says the artist, and are designed “to shift perception ever so slightly, to draw
attention to the ordinary – to what we think we already know.”
Neither
time nor space is fixed, according to Lin, and neither exists without the
other.
Using scientific tools such as sonar images
from the ocean floor or
satellite photographs,
she investigates what lies below the surface
or beyond
view.
Her meticulous sculptures of shifting icebergs,
fractional cardboard
mountains and pin river
maps all suggest the passage of time and the
ever-changing nature of natural phenomena.
Lin was born in Athens, OH,
and trained as an artist
and
architect.
She is best known for her memorials,
public sculptures and architectural projects.
Recent projects include sculpture
installments for the Rockefeller Foundation Headquarters in New
York, the Cleveland Public Library
in Ohio and the Henry
Art Gallery
at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Lin has received numerous awards and fellowships including the Presidential Design
Award, the American Institute of Architects Honor Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image credit:
Maya Lin
Recycled Landscape, 2004
Mixed Media
6 x 4 x 15 inches
Courtesy of Maya Lin Studio, New York, NY.
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