Man & his Universe Series
1984, 3rd Solo exhibition
Man and his Universe Series
Amongst the 20 artworks are:
Planetary Voyage, one that was captivated by the Kepler's laws of planetary motion which describes the orbits of objects. Lin has visited Kepler's House in Linz, 🇦🇹, 1997 and August 2008 -- where Kepler stayed between 1612 to 1630.
🌌 Solar system is incomplete without Nebulæ (Latin: cloud) This artwork was used for both the hardcover sleeve and paperback front cover of the cosmology book titled "Creation of the Universe" (ISBN13: hardcover: 978-9971-5-0600-1, softcover: 978-9971-5-0600-8, ebook: 978-981-3103-78-8) authored by two well-known astrophysicists Fung Li Zhi and Lee Shu Xian, published by World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, July 1986.
📖 The artwork was used as the book cover, won 1st prize for the prestigious Cover Design Prize of the same year at the annual Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, 🇩🇪 Coincidentally, both authors were selected as the cover story of Time Magazine, 🇺🇸on the day the book was printed in February 1989.
🇨🇭 Another interesting example being The Milky Way, painted in 1983, where a Swiss diplomat called Lin in 1988, to persuade her to part with this artwork. Later, he flown to Singapore, and collected the painting subsequently; he hand carried it on board the aircraft. This artwork traveled with him across 4 continents (Asia, Europe, USA, Africa). Currently, the artwork is in Japan where the collector resides.
Back on Earth, Lin presented Earth Panorama and two Asteroid paintings: in the possession of a private and a public collector. Lin's awareness of the Asteroids, the astronomical objects, indeed, the Near Earth Objects orbiting the Sun that are not comets, historically referred to objects inside the orbit of Jupiter, began right at this moment in time. In fact, while composing this blog, Lin was amazed by the striking similarities of the image of the asteroids she painted with the one she found in the NASA photo repositories. There are only 4 asteroid paintings on Earth.