Crossing Map, 1983

Instead of creating illustrations for the text, Lijn creates a visual score, as if the writing were lyrics that could be set to music, and the music could be seen instead of heard.
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Windows, 1979

Lijn layered brightly coloured pastels, rubbing some of the intensity out with white. At the time, she was interested in the surface of the sun and its constant ebullience.
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Quantum 1, 1974

The image is of the Trombay nuclear power station, which made headlines that year due to India exploding its first nuclear test bomb. Lijn had cut the photo from the newspaper about a year before the uproar, intrigued by the forms of the power station. It is a sequel to her set of Industrial Landscapes.
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Forcefields, 1970-1972

In the late 60’s Lijn began experimenting with Letrafilm on paper. In this series, Lijn uses simple forms and much like her series Flowlines, the works explore the relationships between these forms. Through layering the Letrafilm, Lijn is able to create different dimensions and subsequently depth to the image. 
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Breathing Tower, 1971

In 1971, Liliane Lijn proposed Breathing Tower for a commission for the Hayward Gallery's roof in London. The pulse - the breath - would take the form of Thames water being raised by hydraulics to change the shape of the mutable, ziggurat sculpture.
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Neurographs, 1970-1971

"I though of the brain as an electro-chemical system, a kind of organic machine. I found that using these delicate symbols, code for control and use of the flow of electrical energy, opened up a whole imaginative field for me."
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Material Alphabet, 1970

For this series of drawings, Lijn used a dieline printing process, an early form of photocopying used by architects to be able to easily disseminate copies of their preparatory drawings.  Taking a book of aluminium sections, Lijn observed how the sections resembled an alphabet or set of hieroglyphs and made a series of works on paper through subtle variations and repeated forms.
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Floating Gardens of Rock City, 1970

A set of four collages in which Lijn visualised transforming the top levels of the New York skyscrapers into fantastic walkways spanning the island of Manhattan. Lijn envisaged using film, holography, and giant installations to create fantasies of beaches and jungles.
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