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To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
Designer
Land Artist
Landscape Architect
Printmaker
Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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