Lei yixin biography of donald

          The son of an engineer and a schoolteacher, Lei was one of the many youths sent to the countryside for re-education during the Cultural Revolution ()....

          Sculptor Lei Yixin carved grooves over the former words to match existing horizontal "striation" marks in the memorial and deepened all the memorial's grooves.

        1. Sculptor Lei Yixin carved grooves over the former words to match existing horizontal "striation" marks in the memorial and deepened all the memorial's grooves.
        2. It was designed, carved, and installed by a Chinese master sculptor, Lei Yixin.
        3. The son of an engineer and a schoolteacher, Lei was one of the many youths sent to the countryside for re-education during the Cultural Revolution ().
        4. Yixin, Lei. "Stone of Hope of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, Washington, D.C.".
        5. Lei Yixin, the Chinese artist selected by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation to sculpt the statue of King, is certainly famous.

          6. Carefully crafted to express the inner world of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, the "Stone of Hope" in Washington DC was sculpted not by an American, but by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. 

          Standing at 32-feet, the monument was a unique experience for Lei.

          "It was different from all the other works I had ever made in my life... it changed the course of my life afterwards,” says sculptor Lei who is turning 65 this year. 

          Depicting any icon comes with its own set of pressures, and for Lei, controversy centered on the selection of a Chinese artist for an African-American hero. 

          Lei Yixin working on the statue in Washington DC /Photo provided by Lei Yixin

          Lei Yixin working on the statue in Washington DC /Photo provided by Lei Yixin

          Lei describes the project as coming to him.

          In the summer of 2006, the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Foundation had already closed the deadline for accepting design proposals. Dissatisfied with the designs they reviewed, they