Maya Lin is an American artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Maya Lin examines how our current relationship to landscape is extended, condensed, distorted, and mapped via new technologies, and then translates these systematized spaces of the natural world into objects and environments that can be engaged physically. The work called “Vietnam Veterans Memorial” was most touching work she has created. Lin's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers. The memorial has since become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the American military casualties in Vietnam, and personal tokens and mementos are left at the wall daily in their memory. To me, this was most touching work. she want everone to know how brave and courage the soliders were at that time... never want to be forgotten...
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