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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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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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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Head drawings, 1984-1989

Lijn began a series of studies for heads quite consciously in order to develop and change the way she constructed the head areas of her sculptures.
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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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