Exit Matter 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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Liquid Reflections (Multiple), 1968

Liquid Reflections were Lijn’s first and most complex works with water and light. The Liquid Reflections series, inspired by her interest in astronomy and the physics of light, was the outcome of 5 years of experimental work with plastics and fire, acrylic polymers, lenses, prisms, light and finally water.
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Green Line Cone, 1968

In Green Line Cone and in Breathing Cone Lijn found that by altering the way she passed light through Perspex, either through the edge or through the sheet, the quality of light changed dramatically.
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Prism Flares, 1967

In 1965 Lijn began to fabricate framed wall sculptures using thin acrylic sheets as surfaces and incorporating within the frame numerous small spotlights that were programmed to turn on and off sequentially to change the angle of incident light illuminating the surface.
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Linear Light Cylinder, 1967

This was the first large Linear Light Cylinder Lijn made. In this work, which is one of the rare horizontal cylinder pieces, the mechanism is left visible.
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Gold Cylinder, 1964/1967

Lijn was interested in the way a reflected line of light describes the altered surface of the cylinder and gives precise information about any changes made to its surface.
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Sunray, 1967

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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