negative space
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Moby Dick in a Paul Smith Window
In the window of Paul Smith in Covent Garden this lunchtime. Not the greatest photograph, but a white whale shaped stapler on a large piece of crumpled blue paper filled the entire window. So elegant and simple. Managed to speak volumes about the Paul Smith brand without a single item of clothing. Class.
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Left unsaid, negative space and Robin Houghton
My art teacher called the space around the object being painted its countershape. This is a term that seems to have fallen out of favour, but the countershape or negative space around an object can be as beautiful as the object itself, as in the sinuous darkness around the bodies or flowers in a Robert…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 