Linear Light Column

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Linear Light Columns are the first works in Lijn’s Cylinders series. In them she uses reflected light to see form unfold in a four dimensional code. In this series of work Lijn was interested in the way a reflected line of light describes the altered surface of the cylinder. It speaks with a serpentine, sibylline voice, sensual but also cerebral, since it gives precise information about any changes made to the surface of the cylinder.

Linear Light Column
1969
187 cm high x 23 cm diameter
Crimson enamelled copper wire wound acrylic cylinder on motorised turntable.

Linear Light Column
1969
244 cm high x 31 cm diameter
Crimson enamelled copper wire wound acrylic cylinder on motorised turntable.

Photo Credit: Richard Wilding 2014