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or How Leaving Areas “Empty” Can Make a Piece More Powerful
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I’m a big fan of negative space – the silence tends to speak louder than any amount of extraneous guff. I’ve attached one of my recent efforts, wherein I think of the space as speaking of all the vast possibilities that the little boat has to sail into. I’m sure some would think that I’ve over-egged the pudding, but I like it (nothing succeeds like excess??).
NB: you have to click on the image to see all of it, including the only bit that isn’t negative space!
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Further thought that came to me as I was sweating away in the gym just now: when such emptiness works it has a similar effect on me as walking into a hardware shop, or a shop selling stationery, or cookware, or art supplies. I sense all this POTENTIAL. All these blank canvases (whether literal or metaphorical) sitting there inviting some creative person to fill them with artistic excellence, be it Boeuf Bourguignon, an elegantly proportioned wooden bookcase, the next great novel or a fine work of art on canvas. The blank space pulls at me. I’ll use this opportunity to post another of my depictions of potential: a space of darkness just waiting for the ferns to fill it with luxuriant growth.
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