Liliane Lijn
Study for Head   1985

15.5 x 19"
49 x 39 cm

Oil pastel on Whatman paper.

I had until 1980 always used prisms, primarily tank prisms, as abstracted head forms. The multiple significance of the prism, a tool for vision, not simply in diverse directions but also through light refraction, for vision into matter as distant as far off stars, seemed to me an apt metaphor for the human mind.