Gemini

1984

190 x 100 x 60 cm

Stainless steel, optical glass prism, piano wire, glass beads, chromed steel springs.

In Gemini Lijn returned to the fascinating liveliness of springs. The sculpture is both held in tension like a spring and uses springs humorously as a relief from tension.

As in Queen of Diamonds Queen of Hearts Lijn is playing with the idea of twins. Here there is an idea of joined twins, a dual identity, whereas the two Queens were generated by splitting one work into identical and opposite halves.