Liliane Lijn
Basket Head   1985

23” x 20” x 13”
59 x 51 x 33 cm

Plywood, Perspex, piano-wire, glass beads.

I did not get the idea of using beads from African art but from beaded curtains and door screens which I have always loved. Connect that to the veil worn by women. My preoccupation with curtains comes from looking through them. Veils are curtains drawn across the window of a woman’s face.