#20180504# [As an architect and an artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin is on the most innovative artists of the 20th century. She transformed one the oldest and most conservative art forms in America in her college years, and brought an unprecedented degree of humanity to Minimalism. Her ideas were all far ahead of time in which Lin strikes an unusual balance between open-ended concepts and scientific precision as an artist.]
In her childhood, Lin dreamed as being a veterinarian or animal behaviorist, but as time passed by, she was fashionable and with different elements from the world around her, her sensibilities as an architect began to blossom. She entered Yale University in 1977, and competed in designing a new Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which her success of winning became a life-changing moment. Later in her life, Maya Lin focuses deeper in art about designing memorials, and became interested in the natural world as in her childhood. She then married Daniel Wolf, who also helped in her interests. After beginning her life as a mother, she not only continued to work, but also begin to spread her focus.
In Lin’s later work, she carried on in looking at the environment as an artist, in which she created architectural and sculptural works. Lin’s ongoing “What is Missing?” Project continues to call attention to climate change, and up to now, it is still inspiring artists.
