Liliane Lijn
Zero Gravity Koan   2004

250 x 150 cm base diameter

Glass reinforced polyester, Perspex, motorised drive and fluorescent lights

Niccone Valley, Italy

In Zero-Gravity Koan, in which I return to works made in the late 1960’s. I am using glass-reinforced polyester to mold a truncated cone, which is then sawn into elliptical sections, into which fluorescent Perspex planes are laminated. The cone, rejoined and whole again, is lit from within and rotates at a constant speed causing the lines, resulting from the inserted elliptical planes, to oscillate, their motion describing the complex conical form.