#Maya Lin

[zegalba]

Maya Lin: '2x4 Landscape' (2006)

[davidhudson]

Happy 65th, Maya Lin.

[zoeandsubalovephotography]

Architect Maya Lin with her cat in her New York studio

[sheltiechicago]

“Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay” (2022), glass marbles and adhesive. Image courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery.

The Precious Nature of Water Ripples Through Maya Lin’s Sprawling Art Installations -  A Study of Water

All photos by Echard Wheeler

Detail of “Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay” (2022), glass marbles and adhesive

“Flow” (2009), FSC-certified spruce, pine and fir 2 x 4s. Image courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

Installation view of Maya Lin: A Study of Water

[abwwia]

Maya Lin. The Wave Field, 1995. Shaped earth; 100 × 100 feet. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[rabbitcruiser]

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was held in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 1982  

[juliesandothings]

This is a portrait of Maya Lin (designer of the controversial and beloved Vietnam War memorial in Washington, DC) - taken in 1988 by Michael Katakis, 1988

[francescacammisa1]

I gatti sono qualcosa di fantastico. Ti ignorano per la maggior parte del tempo, ma quando percepiscono che stai davvero male si avvicinano senza fiatare.

Kawamura Genki - Se i gatti scomparissero dal mondo

Ph Michael Katakis

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 455

Boundaries

Maya Lin

Simon & Schuster 2000

I had the great pleasure of meeting Maya Lin (b. 1959) once. She had come to our offices to discuss a potential book project based around a conceptual environmental art project she was working on at the time. Though nothing came of those discussions, a few days after her visit, we received a package in the mail, and it was a gift for the staff—a panini press. It was one of the most thoughtful and kind gestures that an author had ever done for us, and she wasn’t even one of our actual authors. I think that gives you a good idea of what kind of person Maya Lin is. From her beginning as a 21-year-old undergraduate who won an open competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the controversy that followed to the Civil Rights Memorial and the Women’s Table at Yale University to her environmental art and beyond, this book traces her career through words, pictures, and diagrams. They say you should never meet your heroes, but sometimes they exceed your highest expectations.

[zegalba]

Maya Lin: Wave Field (1995)

[davidhudson]

Happy 64th, Maya Lin.

Dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, November 15, 1982.

[pugetprincess]

For different reasons, this aesthetic reminds me of both Maya Lin and the tv show Hannibal.

For the past 50 years, Jim Phillips has been collecting shed antlers, having a total of around 14,500. In cold climates, antlers shed yearly. He displays them in a 30 x 64 foot building which he constructed specifically for this purpose.

[famousborntoday]

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. I...

Link: Maya Lin

[abwwia]

Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Maya Lin designed the monument. Lin found her inspiration in the words “until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” a paraphrase from the Book of Amos that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used in his “I Have a Dream” speech and at the start of the Montgomery bus boycott. “The minute I hit that quote I knew that the whole piece had to be about water,” Maya Lin said. “I realized that I wanted to create a timeline: a chronological listing of the Movement’s major events and its individual deaths, which together would show how people’s lives influenced our history and how their deaths made things better.”

[rabbitcruiser]

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 1982,  after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

[eco-diary-by-poli]

Along the Columbia: Maya Lin and the Confluence Project will be on display at Whitman’s Maxey Museum from April 23 to July 30, 2021. Over twenty years ago, Lin was commissioned by a group of arts patrons and tribal leaders of the Columbia River Plateau and the Pacific Northwest to create a major work of public art in remembrance of the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s 1804–1806 journey to the Pacific Ocean. The result is the Confluence Project. Left: Maya Lin in 2005 working on a basalt fish-cleaning table for Cape Disappointment State Park on the Washington coast. (Whitman College and Northwest Archives); Right: The Vancouver Land Bridge, completed in 2008, was a collaboration between the architect Johnpaul Jones and the artist and architect Maya Lin. (Photo: Bruce Forster)