This improvisational response was based on a score that investigated multiple layers of the site: its history, my experiences and reckonings with it, its place in the Princeton community. The score below drew heavily from Maya Lin’s artist statements about her work, Princeton’s publications of this commissioned work, and personal questions I had about settler colonialism, dancing on the unceded land of the Lenni-Lenape people, and my place on the land as a Filipina.
“To experience the land through your feet, not through what you’re thinking” – Maya Lin
in the land/on the land
perceptions and landscape
who gets to try the possibilities of this space? who gets to play? who is missing?
Stop.
Slow down.
What’s going on in the community?
beautiful abstraction
A public conversation with Maya Lin at Princeton
Princeton University Art Museum’s Interpretation
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