Jigsaw Puzzle Works: An Interview with Liliane Lijn
Paris was really lively and open and it was very easy to meet people, and I talked about the jigsaw puzzle work a lot, but I never told [Andr é] Breton about them. I was much too shy. I didn’t tell any of those guys about my jigsaws. You know, frankly, very few people paid any attention to what I was doing at that time. I was a) young, and b) a woman.
As three sculptures from the 1960s by kinetic art pioneer Liliane Lijn go on display at Tate Britain, Tony White asks her about some tantalising and lesser-known earlier works.
The Beauty of the Room
Here’s how come the title. O, it was so beautiful. The room was. I stood and swooned–and said what you just read. I swear it to you, that I stood in the doorway and said, “O, the beauty of the room.” Well, sure, I see it, don’t think I don’t see it–my saying I said O when, who knows, might it have been oh I said?
New fiction by Gordon Lish.