Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
After approaching fifteen artists, they found that four of them recommended the Chinese artist Master Lei Yixin. After the Foundation interviewed him in Washington, DC, examined his work in China, Master Lei Yixin became the official sculptor in 2007. The sculpture and the mountain are composed of 159 granite blocks that were transported to Master Leiās studio in Changsha, China, where he assembled and sculpted 80 percent of the artwork. It was then disassembled and transported by ship to Baltimore, and reassembled at the memorial. Master Lei completed the last 20 percent of the sculpting on site in Washington, D.C.