Hammershoi’s successful influence is felt in Franklin’s “The Sound of Silence” as she paints an interior with more profundity than before. Franklin, happily, has moved into a farmhouse and her interiors reflect an expansiveness as a result. Here she decides to eliminate most of the detail in the foreground and instead dives into a study of line and plane, with alternating cool tones and warm tones as the light swirls around the scene. This refined telescoping composition holds our attention in a circular composition informed by rectangles.