Boundaries by Lin
Boundaries (2000)
by Maya Lin
224 pages - Simon & Schuster
Maya Lin is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., her design winning the competition while she was still a student. This is a profile of her various works in art, architecture, and the places where the two disciplines meet. It's also a look into her creative processes, ideas and philosophies. Somewhere here she describes her aesthetic approach as not strictly minimalist, but "quiet", which I think is apt. Good stuff.
'I do not think that we can fully understand how one makes a specific mark upon a page--at some point one has to trust one's eye, one's intution. I do not think that implies a lack of rational thought, I just think that one cannot understand why one makes a specific move, that the creative act is a combination of conscious and subconscious thoughts that cannot or should not be deciphered.'
by Maya Lin
224 pages - Simon & Schuster
Maya Lin is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., her design winning the competition while she was still a student. This is a profile of her various works in art, architecture, and the places where the two disciplines meet. It's also a look into her creative processes, ideas and philosophies. Somewhere here she describes her aesthetic approach as not strictly minimalist, but "quiet", which I think is apt. Good stuff.
'I do not think that we can fully understand how one makes a specific mark upon a page--at some point one has to trust one's eye, one's intution. I do not think that implies a lack of rational thought, I just think that one cannot understand why one makes a specific move, that the creative act is a combination of conscious and subconscious thoughts that cannot or should not be deciphered.'