Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is designing what she calls her "last" memorial. The project is named "What is Missing?" and it concentrates on memorializing the pattern of mass animal and plant extinction in which we are presently finding ourselves. It consists of a combination of art installations, 70+ videos, a book and an extensive website that seeks to permanently archive, as completely as possible, the species which have disappeared or are about to.
Above is the "Listening Cone" exhibited at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. It is made of cast steel and redwood and it:
draws visitors in with the sounds of 50 extinct or endangered species and landscapes, sourced from research archives worldwide. Within the cone, compelling quotes, statistics, and images emerge on an eye-shaped video screen.
Below is an image from "Empty Room." This installation is in
features an empty room with pinholes in the floor that project the short, looped videos toward the ceiling. Visitors will carry a thin, clear screen that lights up with images when held above the pinhole.
"'The Empty Room' really speaks to the notion of absence -- that there is nothing physical about this exhibit and that the form is the information -- a visitor is able to hold a species in their hands," said Lin.
To hear an interview with Maya Lin about this project go here. There is also a related article.
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