Today, we’re celebrating architect Maya Lin for #ArtistWednesday. Her works examine landscape and the world around us. Lin came to attention when she won the Vietnam Veterans Memorial competition in Washington D.C. as a Yale undergraduate. . She has since designed memorials in honor of civil rights, women at Yale, and local history in the Pacific Northwest. Lin’s final memorial, called What is Missing? is a multimedia project focusing on biodiversity and species extinction. . Her solo exhibition at the Heinz Architectural Center in 2012, featured Blue Lake Pass, which occupied an entire gallery. According to Lin, by “pulling the terrain apart so that one can walk through the landscape, I wanted to shift one’s perspective about the land [with this work]. Allowing a viewpoint that is more geologic in character.” . [Image description] A blue lit gallery featuring a sculptural model on a pedestal; in the background, a yellow lit gallery features a large installation of terrain-like segment...