Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River (Chapter IV)

Sharka Hyland examines how literary language transcends the distinction between the verbal and the visual, becoming an amalgam of the two. She recreates texts using historically and culturally appropriate typefaces in a size and format one might encounter while reading a book. The resultant drawings fuse the author’s words with the reader’s imagination. Thus, the “true” subject of the drawings is intangible, being whatever the viewer conceives.