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A Writing Prompt to Shift Towards Wonder
This simple prompt shifts your brain towards wondering, an active state instead of a defended one. Not bad for fifteen minutes.
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The American Maya Lin shot to fame in 1981 when her design for the proposed Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC was accepted while she was still an architecture student at Yale University. Her public monuments are minimalist in style but maximalist in impact and are always sensitive to their relationship with the surrounding landscapes. Environmental issues have been a core part of Lin’s sensibility since she was a child. “Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay” is an installation piece made up of 54,000 glass marbles glued in place to recreate the structure of the largest estuary in the United States. The marbles flow across the floor and up the walls of the space. Lin drew the waterway form from satellite imagery provided by NASA. This beautiful, visual installation presents the Chesapeake as a single, living ecosystem. The watery blue marbles point to a clean water system, free from pollution and environmental damage.
January's theme: Sculpture
MAYA LIN (b. 1959), “Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay”, 2022. Installation at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia US.
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November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. Carved into black granite are the 58,260 names of those Americans who died in Vietnam.
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Today in Art History, American architect and sculptor Maya Lin was born in 1959. Best known for creating historical memorials, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, she is also known for works that bring attention to environmental issues. #arthistory #spillingthetea #mayalin #vietnammemorial
"To combine the rational and the intuitive, the straight line and the curve. The one without the other doesn't balance; it is the juxtaposition of the two that informs the whole."
Maya Lin, "Boundaries"
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Clouds are reflected in a closeup photo of names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. The photo was taken in 1999.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1999
#memorialday #veterans #war #soldiers #vietnam #vietnamwar #washingtondc #filmphotography #originalphotography #mayalin #brucesharp
A photo of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington DC with the caption “Maya Lin’s Veterans Memorial Changed How We…”
A broken metal POW/MIA bracelet with the words CMSGT Lawrence Clark and the date 10-8-66 inscribed.
I grew up on a military base during Vietnam. I still have my POW bracelet as he’s still never come home. CMSGT Lawrence Clark.
Visiting the Vietnam Memorial was moving, solemn, impactful. I found him on the wall. I grieved for his loved ones.
Thank you #MayaLin
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Thinking about the end of #Women’sHistoryMonth, and have had so much impact from #MayaLin, #JaneJacobs & #LaurieAnderson. There are truly many others, but thinking about these three today.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a V-shaped wound in the ground that redefined memorial design. Its polished granite reflects visitors, connecting them to the past.
#VietnamMemorial #Architecture #MayaLin #MemorialDesign #ArchitecturalStories
Stereo View of Art Installation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (DNA Tree of Life by Maya Lin) #StereoView #ParallelView #3D #Art #MayaLin #Philadelphia
