Geburtsdatum | Montag, 05. Oktober 1959 |
Geburtsort | Athens, Ohio, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Maya Ying Lin (geboren am 5. Oktober 1959) ist eine amerikanische Designerin und Bildhauerin. 1981, während ihres Studiums an der Yale University, erlangte sie nationale Anerkennung, als sie einen nationalen Designwettbewerb für das geplante Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., gewann. |
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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.
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
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.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
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.
