Tim Lane Silent Quarter

Printed hardback book,

22.5 x 16.6 x 1.5 cm

Silent Quarter is a short story told through a combination of writing and drawing. The playful structure is most akin to a concept album. It has short written passages that fit together in a loose story arch which are like the ‘lyrics’. The ‘music’ is then provided by the large images that literally ‘open-up’ on fold-out pages and augment the text – lending mood, symbolism and
providing time for reflection. The idea is not a fixed narrative but instead something that is open and flexible to the reader.
Through this pleasing and inventive relationship between written vignettes and immersive artworks the narrative
unfolds. The ‘fragmented’ combination of text and image – at once illustrative but also at times more oblique in representation – creates an artwork that fires your imagination and leaves space for a more individual experience and interpretation.