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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Land Artist
Landscape Architect
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Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
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We were unusually brought up there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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To fly, we must have resistance.
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
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An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
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