Boundaries
by Maya Lin

Summary

Artist/architect Maya Lin, creator of the renowned Vietnam Veterans Memorial, has consistently explored how we experience the landscape. Over her career, Lin has created a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works, and memorials. Lin's book Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement, an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as Lin's other artwork.

Landscape is the context and the source of inspiration for Ms. Lin's art. She peers curiously at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens, merging rational and technological order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural world, Ms. Lin takes micro and macro views of the earth, sonar resonance scans, aerial and satellite mapping devices and translates that information into sculptures, drawings and environmental installations. Her works address how we relate and respond to the environment, and presents new ways of looking at the world around us.

From recent environmental works such as Storm King Wavefield, Where the Land Meets the Sea and Eleven Minute Line to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where she cut open the land and polished its edges to create a history embedded in the earth, Lin's works merge completely with the terrain, blurring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space and set up a systematic ordering of the land tied to history, language, and time.

Her studio artwork has been shown in solo and group museum exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Lin's current exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes originated at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and is the first to translate the scale and immersive capacity of her outdoor installations to the interior space of a museum.

Praise

"Concise and graceful on such abstract topics as art, vision, and design, Lin offers unique insights into how artists create." — USA Today

"Like everything connected with Lin, Boundaries is beautifully designed and beautifully written." — The Boston Globe

"This lovely book succeeds in two worlds: Lin wants you to read it and yet see it as an art book ... Every page in her book is serene, thought-provoking, striking." — The Arizona Republic

About the Author

Born in Ohio in 1959, Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. She was trained as an artist and architect, and her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. "As the child of immigrants you have that sense of, Where are you? Where's home? And trying to make a home," remarks Chinese-American Lin. Her renowned Vietnam Veterans Memorial allows the names of those lost in combat to speak for themselves, connecting a tragedy that happened on foreign soil with the soil of America's capital city, where it stands. Lin lives in New York and Colorado. Find more information about Maya Lin at her web site http://mayalin.com.

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