I became very interested in Maya Lin after class on Thursday. I loved her background story and the simplicity of the Vietnam Memorial. I decided to look up some of her other Earth Art pieces and found some of them to very intriguing. She does a lot of work that looks like hills and waves. I picked a couple of the pieces I found.
What I enjoy about this piece is that Maya Lin stayed to true to her beliefs as an environmentalist. I read that she used what was present on the site at the park and the used environmentally friendly soils to complete her project. She also studied waves in order to create this. This piece is called Storm King Wavefield.
This is called Blue Lake Pass. When I saw this piece it reminded me of graphing systems or some kind of technology that can measure elevation. It appears as though earth art has met technology in this piece. Both parts of this piece ( I am referring to what is on the ground and the wiring above it) could very well be the same piece of land but in different scale.
I hope for my next blog, I will have some pictures of my own!!!!
Brandy E
The "technology" part of what Maya Lin is doing is what also makes her stand out from other Land artists ... I think it has to do with her background and training ...
ReplyDeleteI find Maya Lin's work very clean and defined. You can definitely see every angle clearly. Her Vietnam Veterans Memorial is no exception. I agree that the technology influence in Maya Lin's work comes from her background, since she studied architecture.
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