BACKGROUND
Maya Lin, architect and sculptor, was still an undergraduate at Yale University when she won the national design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Maya has won international acclaim for her site-specific art and architecture projects. In 2005, she was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Many of her sculptures present a profound vision and compassion, merging history, process and their legacy. The spirit of her forms and her use of materials evidence her concern for the environment.
Maya's parents emigrated from China.

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION
Maya mentioned somewhere in her book Boundaries, that 'she sculpts the earth'. I liked that image and decided to put her in a position of scupting the earth on a large scale suggesting the impact her work has had around the world. Maya created a park in Grand Rapids, MI that had to do with the three phases of water. In the design, the ice skating rink was shaped like the ripple of a drop of water on a pond. Ripples on the edge formed the bleachers. Fiber optics were used to create the constellations in the skies beaming through the ice. The metaphor in my image is that the actions of just a single person can ripple through the universe.