Positive negative space art10/3/2023 It’s entering the haven of Gregorian chant, blissing out on orchestral music, or at least, drifting in a swimming pool on an air mattress island, listening to music with no lyrics.įOR THE SENSES: White space is the time a nose requires to reset between spritzes of perfume samples, the idyllic scent of books in the hush of a library. It’s yielding to the passages of time necessary to recuperate between intense periods of creativity. Spa time is ‘re-creation’ time surrendering to the therapies of massage and weightless floats, suspended in isolation tanks of white space. It’s the pursuit of sanity, zoning out from the media blitz, ignoring much ado about nothing and the overkill of too many somethings by honouring the state of mumblety-peg. It’s wholeheartedly embracing ‘down time’ devoted to the joy of being lazy. It’s relishing a precious hour for yourself. It’s time spent blocking the relentless think tanks of surrounding chaos filled with fake news, gossip, and negativity. I cannot recommend his books and captivating recordings highly enough.Īnd for super-duper thinkers, there’s always contemplating the benign white void of eternity.įOR TIMING: Whiteout time is patiently listening for one’s turn in a truly boring conversation or waiting for a polite exit from the aforementioned conversation. It’s surrendering to the rare sanctuary of intellectual retreat, which, for me, is rediscovering the timeless philosophy of Alan Watts – the coolest Zen master to have ever walked the planet. It’s the wisdom of giving in rather than giving up – the relief when the chaos of having to work things out naturally shifts to accepting what is. It’s the restorative white space of meditation, focusing on the natural rhythms between breath and heartbeats. And in traditional publishing there’s an inordinate amount of white space between sending a query letter to an agent editor and receiving a reply or enduring the endless white space of silence.įOR DEEP THINKERS: White space is the private realms of imagination, reverie and daydreaming. There’s always white space between books one and two in a series and books two and three of a trilogy and the end of a series and its a prequel. White space is holding a table for one in a crowded café, writing on real paper with the perfect pen. It’s driving a car, avoiding pot holes while working out plot holes. White space is a place inside the mind set aside to listen to one’s muse. White space in a novel is essential to showcase a stream of rapid dialogue. White space in non-fiction creates visible islands of thought. For poets, white space allows a single word to shine. For screenwriters, white space on the page is the do or die of getting noticed. For authors, white space is the critical breathing space between scene changes and to counterbalance the density of long passages of narrative thought. We also relish the subtle delight of literary puzzles and their abundant negative spaces of secrets, clues, and mysteries.įOR WRITERS: White space is never a blank space. Voila Escher and his subtle nuances of optical illusion. An image with no points of reference equals a subjective play of light and colour. Set up an irresistible challenge by giving it a puzzle. A bored brain, confronted with an optical illusion, is forced to work out what something is from the white shapes it is not – a mental workout that’s as good as a rest.Ĭonfusing the brain, trained to identify, define, and record, is easy. Which is why it’s easier to copy a picture of person or an object by turning it upside down (as counterfeiters taking liberties duplicating a signature, fully understand). The brain, well-versed in the art of visual perception, makes sense of abstract images by searching for recognizable shapes. Voila the sublime mathematics of visual art. He raised negative space to the ultimate art form where shapes gradually morph into each other to form something entirely new yet remain ultimately connected. Escher demonstrates the powers of negative space in his engraving of birds turning into fish. Negative space, known as ‘white space’, is a misnomer, considering that white space is effectively one of the most ‘positive’ things we can see, taste, hear, feel, and smell.įOR ARTISTS: Leaving aside the obvious daunting white space of a blank canvas, M.C. Escher THE ESSENTIALS of ‘NEGATIVE’ SPACES FOR ARTISTS, WRITERS, and DEEP THINKERS.
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