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“To fly, we have to have resistance.”
“To fly, we have to have resistance.”
— MAYA LIN
Designer and artist · born 1959
Maya Lin is an American designer and artist who, while still an undergraduate at Yale, won the national design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. She is known for works that blend art, architecture and landscape.
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