# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GwPmDlkEy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044543-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f1638b7792.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-07-19T16:45:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Maya Lin (b.1959) is an American designer and artist who works primarily in sculpture and land art to address historical moments and environmental issues. Using technology like sonar maps and satellite imaging, Lin’s acute installations explore the relationship people have with their environment by bringing elements of nature into an urban setting. For example, in “Water Line” (2006) Lin used wire to reconstruct the topography of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is the ocean floor north of Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth. Bringing the contours of the bottom of the sea to an interior gallery space is indicative of Lin’s astounding ability to synthesize momentous nature into an accessible viewing experience. Lin’s most famous installation is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1981), which consists of two long mirrors with the names of fallen soldiers engraved on its surface. "I'm very much a product of the growing awareness about ecology and the environment movement," Lin explains. "I am very drawn to landscape, and my work is about finding a balance in the landscape, respecting nature not trying to dominate it. Even the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an earthwork. All of my work is about slipping things in, inserting an order or a structuring, yet making an interface so that in the end, rather than a hierarchy, there is a balance and tension between the man-made and the natural."
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#MayaLin mayalinstudio 
Image: Courtesy of knoll.com

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