Brooding Head, 1986-90
In 1987 Lijn began to work with hot glass in the Hergiswil Glassi on a series of torn exploding heads. The Glassi is a traditional glass factory on the shore of Lake Luzern, a huge wooden building where glass is blown by a number of craftsmen all grouped on a stage around a central furnace or pot where the glass is melte
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Woman of War, 1986
Lijn wanted the sculpture to come alive and decided that it would enact the drama of the song. It then became apparent that Woman of War would sing to Lady of the Wild Things which would respond to the song with light.
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Conjunction of Opposites: Lady of the Wild Things and Woman of War, 1986
Two mixed media performing sculptures enact a computer controlled 6 minute drama which includes movement, song, the transformation of sound to light, and a laser display.
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Blue Buzzing Bee, 1985
It seems that the origins of saintly halos derive from the historical fact that bees were seen to swarm around the heads of Hindu and Buddhist saints.
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Basket Head, 1985
Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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Big Spotted Ruby, 1984/1985
A sculpture comprising of horizontal sheets of Mica attached to a copper wire structure that give the piece an organic form like fungus or a desert rose.
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Red Net, 1985
Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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Night and Day, 1985
Both Night and Day and She's so Blue take their titles from songs imbued with melancholy: the blues. In these works she blends geometry with African art and sound with Art Deco from the 30’s and 40’s. Lijn wants her work to be as many layered as possible.
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She’s so Blue, 1985
Lijn sees Head-Dresses as extensions of the Head. Anything worn on the head is also part of it and expresses it’s powers and restrictions. As in the veil or the mask worn by women to conceal and suppress them.
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Horned Head, 1985
The studies for Heads gradually became Head-dresses. These are sculptures to wear, head ornaments and symbols of the head.
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Folding the Ring, 1985
Lijn plays with geometry, collapsing and folding circular planes or segments of rings, using piano wire and beads as a flexible mobile extension of the plywood shapes with beads for colour.
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Her Head is Her House, 1984
In her bead heads series, Lijn plays with geometry, collapsing and folding circular planes or segments of rings, using piano wire and beads as a flexible mobile extension of the plywood shapes.
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Mica Metal Flower Stone, 1984
Mica Metal Flower Stone is a union of two different areas of experimentation in Lijn's work.
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Woman of War (study for Head), 1984
Study for a Head for a large performing sculpture. Woman of war came from a song Lijn wrote for her and then from the images of an armoured head.
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