Koancuts (Prints), 1971

Koancuts are prints which Lijn made during the same period as the conical sculptures Anti-Gravity Koan, Space Displace Koan, and Exit Matter Koan which were the first large sculptures in her ongoing Koan series.
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White Koan, 1971

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Industrial Landscapes, 1971

Fascinated by the processes and images of industry and in particular the network of industry which creates and distributes electricity, the energy upon which our society is based, Lijn created this series of silkscreen prints.
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Neurographs, 1970-1971

"I though of the brain as an electro-chemical system, a kind of organic machine. I found that using these delicate symbols, code for control and use of the flow of electrical energy, opened up a whole imaginative field for me."
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Material Alphabet, 1970

For this series of drawings, Lijn used a dieline printing process, an early form of photocopying used by architects to be able to easily disseminate copies of their preparatory drawings.  Taking a book of aluminium sections, Lijn observed how the sections resembled an alphabet or set of hieroglyphs and made a series of works on paper through subtle variations and repeated forms.
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Tilt, 1970

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Small Spring Ritual, 1970

Lijn was fascinated by the use of prisms as tools for vision in both industry and war. Here were materials which were used both for destruction and creation. Not only that, they were real tools for vision, enabling people not only to see and sight from within bind boxes, but also to see within solid matter by analysing the spectrum of light given off by gases, for example in distant stars.
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Poem Game, 1970

In 1970, Liliane, Liliane Lijn created a deck of 54 of word cards. Each card had one word to a side, ‘the words themselves having come to mind as I wrote them on the cards’. She originally called the cards Keys and invented three games to play with them: a game of power, a game of poetry and a game of divination.
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Floating Gardens of Rock City, 1970

A set of four collages in which Lijn visualised transforming the top levels of the New York skyscrapers into fantastic walkways spanning the island of Manhattan. Lijn envisaged using film, holography, and giant installations to create fantasies of beaches and jungles.
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Bubble Tower, 1969

Bubble Towers were initially made as toys, but were shown to be very complex and unpredictable in their fluid dynamic aspects.
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Anti-Gravity Koan, 1969

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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