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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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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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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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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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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