tim lane
paintings
Entanglement
Entanglement (acrylic, spray paint, gouache, colored pencil on paper, 30"x22", 2020) reflects my idea that first contact with alien life forms and space travel through portals will be connected because bodies just aren't built for space travel. We'll need to fold space, create portals, or better utilize quantum entanglement, perhaps. Someday, leaving our solar system will be necessary. The Millennial generation and beyond will develop the technology. In the painting, the young figure is holding a flashlight, searching. Maybe just arrived through the disc, maybe about to leave.
Spooky Action at a Distance
The title, Spooky Action at a Distance (acrylic, house paint, spray paint, gouache, colored pencil on canvas, 20"x16", 2020) was borrowed from the phrase Einstein coined to describe quantum entanglement. In this painting, I tried to combine my interpretations of visual elements on cosmic and subatomic levels. Is the heroic figure a future product of entanglement, arriving or leaving, a beacon of hope? Is the disc a massive doorway to a parallel universe? Once the realm of science fiction, these ideas seem more plausible every day.
No Looks Back
No Looks Back (acrylic, watercolor, oil pastel, crayon, colored pencil, ink on paper, 22"x17", 2024) depicts an astronaut in a space suit reminiscent of the suits from the film 2001: a Space Odyssey. In the background, galaxies collide in deep space. As the resultant fluorescent pink eruption of ultra heated light spreads outward, the astronaut moves onward.
tim lane
is a Lansing, Michigan based artist and writer. For the past fifteen years, he’s held down gigs as an art gallery director, art festival assistant and athletic specialist all while writing novels, painting and curating playlists. Your Silent Face is his debut novel. Phil’s Siren Song is the follow up. All of his artwork can be found at yoursilentface.com. His current preoccupations include space, quantum physics and all things 1980s. He is a member of the Buckham Gallery Artists and Writers Collective, based in Flint, Michigan.