Artist field note

Maya Lin

Landscape can hold memory without closing it.

Appears inNature
Civil Rights Memorial by Maya Lin
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Civil Rights Memorial

1989

A water-covered timeline lets touch and chronology carry a history of struggle.

The five in one idea

Lin creates restrained forms through which memory, land and environmental responsibility remain active.