NEGATIVE SPACE
- NEGATIVE SPACE … Wikipedia on Negative Space can provide a launch pad (the article is rightly flagged as having multiple issues) Can you fix them?– you could probably at least improve the page.
- BUT for A&O today, make a psychosemantic mind map and the meaning of the idea will quickly expand to every art form and large parts of science, particularly in the infinitessimal and cosmic realms.
A very appealing corollary is the Japanese concept of MA in which beauty is sought in the spaces between things (e.g., the You Tube comments on ma)
Is absence the same as non-existence? Nothingness? the opposite of presence? can we have an absence of reality? Is absence even possible?? On a phenomenological level, consider Bethany Vaccaro’s (2014) essay in The America Scholar about “The Presence of Absence.”