Lost Koan, 2007

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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Red Line Koan, 2007

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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Fire Ice, 2007

Whether she works with a poet’s words or her own text, Lijn wants the words to float into the viewers mind in continually changing sequences. Meaning, like a river, is always in flux.
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Prism Ring 2006

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Folded Ring, 2006

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Starslide, 2005

Lijn’s concept of sculpture is that no part of it should be unnecessary. She wanted to design a slide that both in concept and form would be an integral part of the sculpture.
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Starslide (Construction), 2005

It was a great challenge to conceive of a sculpture that was also a helter-skelter. To mould a spiral slide into a cone was an extremely complex technical problem.
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Zero Gravity Koan, 2004

Niccone Valley, Italy. In 2004 I decided to remake the Koans, which I had originally made in 1969 and exhibited at the Hanover Gallery in London.
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Zero Gravity Koan, 2004

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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Inner Light III, 2003

Commissioned by St. Thomas’ and Guy’s Hospital Charitable Trust for the Maternity Ward of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London.
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Liquid Koan, 2003

Layers of colour appear distinct and separate or merge into one another depending on the angle at which they are seen. The cone is seen as both solid and fluid within the medium of light.
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Nested Foot, 2001

Lijn was walking barefoot on the island of Mykonos when, all at once, she realised that we are connected to the earth only through the soles of our feet. What energies, she wondered, might pass between the foot and the mother planet?
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