Maya Lin

Maya Lin is an Asian American artist born in Ohio in 1979. She is best known for her work on the Vietnam memorial.The Vietnam memorial which defied logic by the way it was designed and the feeling it transpired behind it. She explains that the v shaped sunken wall of black stone with the names of the loved ones killed in choreographically order was to give you this feeling of death but as an observer. Searching out a loved one thru the power of their names to provide this feeling of death, and a sense of closure. The clear reflection made within the Stone of yourself that made you feel like if you too were part of the war. Thus giving you this feeling of raw emotion and utter awe. Mayas work combines part art and part architecture as she designed many parks, monuments and landscapes. she explains that everything she does in life is about polarities. polarities is the condition of a body or system in which it has opposing physical properties at different points. The main focus of polarities in her work is about two sides balancing out. What inspires most of Mayas art comes from culturally diverse sources. Lin ultimately strikes an unusual balance of open ended concepts with scientific precision. She obsessively plans calculates, investigates and measures each of her tasks at hand to combine science and art at its fullest.

This piece above is made with textbooks that were carved in which her sole purpose for this is to create a multi-sited artwork that brings awareness to the crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. some say she is ahead of time, while others say she is from the renaissance era where science and exact calculations were used.