![]() 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. That I knew he’d put that secret animal right between Greta and me.Original art – M.C. I touched my finger to the rough pencil lines, and I wished I could let Finn know that I saw what he’d done. So exactly the kind of thing Finn would think of. It was almost painful to look at that negative space, because it was so smart. It was all in the way Greta’s sleeve draped and the way my shoulder angled in. ![]() The kind of thing that had to be brought to your attention. Negative space was kind of like constellations. Or, no-of course, it was a wolf’s head, tilted up, mouth open and howling. In this sketch, Finn had colored in the negative space, and I saw that it made a shape that looked like a dog’s head. To see the stuff that’s there but not there. I could understand what he was saying, but it didn’t come naturally to me. He was always trying to get me to understand negative space. “I came to a sketch where the space between my arm and Greta’s arm, the shape of the place between us, had been darkened in.
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