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Maya Lin, best-known for her modern, memory gripping design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., has shifted her subject matter to our planet, focusing in recent years “on a reconsideration of landscape in a time of ecological tension and change“. Currently, Maya Lin’s work is presented by PG&E at the de Young ~ via Heart of Green’s Cool Green Events:

“Systematic Landscapes is a major exhibition of new sculptures, drawings, and installations by renowned artist Maya Lin…this new body of work engages the issue of our fragile connection to the environment in timely and poetic ways.”

Simultaneously, Systematic Landscapes previews Maya Lin’s public art installation Where the Land Meets the Sea, a tubular wire sculpture commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission for Golden Gate Park’s California Academy of Sciences.

Walking around the gallery earlier today I was pleased to discover that in addition to the exhibition,

Previously featured by Low Impact Living in an article here about the fine art of upcycling, Schimmel Art is worth a another look:

The artist’s vision is to utilize the disciplines of painting and mosaic to create a connected collection of representational or abstract images in segments of brilliant color. The goal of the work is to utilize resources that would otherwise go to waste. It’s described as an organic communion of thought and inspiration. The faces portrayed are imagined to be images from advertising ephemera and motivated by the constant external stimuli of art and beauty, fashion and design.

The artist says