About the authors: 2
Terry Jones' text 'Whispers' touch many aspects of life, love, death and sex and tell a touching love story of a relationship lost and regained, from the perspective of each partner. His interpretations of Bruce Rae's images are occasionally literal and often allegorical. They could sometimes be describing the actions, and discussing the feelings, of the creatures in Rae's images, but equally could be metaphors for human emotion and frailty, deeds and consequences.

Tom Phillips provides the 'Echoes'. With graphical enhancements to a second, identical system of Jones's text placed immediately beneath it, Phillips transforms its meaning by selectively highlighting or obscuring different sections of words or - to great effect - part-words. His artwork sometimes supports and amplifies the original message; occasionally he impishly finds alternative story strands within the same text. Whilst rigidly maintaining Jones's template, his work literally gives form to the text, often reflecting visual elements that are either conjured up by Jones's words or from Rae's pictures.

By Bruce Rae,
Terry Jones and
Tom Phillips

Three British artists
- one extraordinary collaboration

• About the book
• About the authors
• Page previews
• Collector's Edition
• Ordering info

• Back to Ag site

• To preview double page spread samples click on the detail image above •
• To view an enlarged version of the print or illustration click on the page •