Bridal Wound, 1986-90

The Torn Heads series was an expression of pain and suffering, and the rupture of the head was a liberating act for Lijn. Instead of the solid geometric prism, a seeing transforming manmade tool, the head became a container of breath.
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Folded Koan, 1990

Liliane Lijn has been drawing soft conical forms for some time. Thinking of fan shaped open cones led to folded cones. This also came from making paper models for large-scale sculptures. Cones began to change into pyramids, obelisks and variations on these shapes.
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Black Koan, 1990

The White Koan is a minimal meditative work, Black Koan, the etching was more like its shadow, an ominous and brooding image.
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Electric Bride, 1989

The figure of the Electric Bride stands in a steel enclosure, which separates her from our world. Electric Bride and the cage are connected by an electric current, which is made visible in the form of 9 red-hot wires. A glass head pulses with strobe light and a whispered text is heard.
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Carbon Black, 1988

Lijn used identical geometric elements to create an organic form dependent on the spatial relationship and connections between the separate elements.
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Argo, 1988

Commissioned by NM Schroder for their newly built head office in Poole, designed by Wells -Thorpe and Supple Ltd
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Net Heads, 1988

A series of works on paper all using the image of nets to configure the human head. Nets and meshes are a basic part of the iconography of Lijn's work.
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O Lily Lilith, 1987-1990

Lijn began to experiment in the factory using colour and blowing the glass into metal which wrapped itself around the molten forms, taking on the patterns of the spinning motion used when blowing glass.
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Zig Zag Blues, 1987

Using formal geometric elements, Lijn creates an organic serpentine form by varying the relationship between the single elements.
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Torn Head, 1987-1990

The change from solid optical glass prisms to hot blown glass marked a shift in Lijn's work from the purely metaphorical to the intensely personal. Whereas Lijn's Prism Heads transformed light, her Torn Heads expressed emotion.
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Headborn, 1987 – 1990

The title of this sculpture implies birth from the head. The word conception means both birth and idea, conceiving in the womb and in the mind.
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