Maya Lin
Maya Lin
Maya Ying Linis an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She first came to fame at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth5 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
journey artist space
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
past order names
I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.
creativity writing thinking
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
pain cutting loss
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
individual list national reaching time war
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
art character years
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
artist fog groups
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
war artist memorial
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
art thinking serendipity
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
art fields architecture
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
school thinking artist
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
war names levels
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
art architecture tricky
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
artist childhood fatherhood
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.