Čiurlionis' work also touches upon the theme of silence. In this painting, the artist uses laconic forms to portray the state of silence. Three lone dandelion clocks peer at their barren and abstract surroundings, portraying this immensely fragile and vulnerable state – the slightest breath of wind and the silence would be gone.

Čiurlionis' sister Valerija Čiurlionytė-Karužienė associates the artist's understanding of silence not with an earthly but a cosmic state: “Is this not an explanation of the Universe in our minds? Is this not the ascendancy of man to human energy, his convergence with the Universe? Silence – Peace – is not enclosed in our capsule of self, it is a gift from the Universe, given to us so that man could sense its splendour.” Entering a rhythm of silence was a prerequisite for Čiurlionis' creative work. He worked in absolute solitude, closed off from everyone in his small room, where he created the atmosphere he needed to work, the foundation of which was silence – perhaps not so much of the surrounding world, but inner spiritual quietness wherein he could see cosmic harmony and hear cosmic music.

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