MAYA LIN, VIETNAM MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON DC, 1976
"I work with the landscape, and I hope that the object and the land are equals players." Maya Lin, 1983
"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is non an object inserted into the earth but a work from the act of cutting open the earth and polishing earth’s surface – dematerializing the stone to pure surface, creating an interface between world of the light and the quitter world beyond the names. I saw it as part of earth – like a geode." Maya Lin, 1996
"That reliance on movement seems to be the great essential of work straddling the boundary between architecture and sculpture... Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial unites script an form, uses inscription not only to talk of time by moving readers along its wall, but compels bodily motion too, as visitors are drawn to trace names with their fingers." N. Olsberg, 2014