Lien Buysens puts in everything she does and makes, the viewer's imagination is central. She actively and playfully explores the relationship between idea and image and probes the boundaries between what is shown, what is suggested and what remains invisible. In her two-volume book and graduation project Rope Chicken, for example, she combined prints, typography, concept and design with large, colourful, cut shapes to create a personal reading process. Thanks to this bringing together of visual and textual experiences, all kinds of contradictions and ambiguities, pleasant and disturbing situations, this this book even won awards in 2011.
Domestic scenes are also common in her gouaches, collages, etchings or drawings, such as a jug, bowl, flowers or kitchen utensils and are abstracted into lines, colours and planes. In a way, it's about being comforted by gradually becoming entwined with familiar things and becoming more appreciative of them. She tries to capture her immediate environment into an image, looking at it again and again and structure.
By repeating the same similar shape several times repeating it brings a kind of calmness: the slow and repetitive that the attentive brings about.