Public art remains the stiffest creative challenge for all involved with it. Consider Maya Lin's "The Listening Cone," the permanent sculptural element of her "What Is Missing?" project, underwritten by the San Francisco Arts Commission and unveiled Thursday at the California Academy of Sciences.
Few will deny the worthiness or urgency of the project's didactic thrust: the quickening pace of species extinction due to habitat destruction and other impacts of global society.
Lin, 49, who became famous overnight for her 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., chose extinct and vanishing species as her last subject for a memorial project. The years of research she put into it made an environmental activist of her.
"The Listening Cone", a permanent sculpture in Maya Lin's "What is Missing?" project, is at the California Academy of Sciences.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this will ever make a traveling display as did her 'Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall' in Washington, DC. I love tangible things like this that involve our collective senses and I would think that people would flock to this! I know I would!