Maya Lin
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"Maya Ying Lin" is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She came to fame as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and has gone on to pursue a remarkable career in art and architecture, while continuing her interest in memorials.

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I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape [in the exhibit].

You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment].