negative_space phil when i look around me, I see none I feel it but I just don't see it 020925 ... ever dumbening With the fresh excitement of my new knowledge pulsing through my week and in my sketch book, I jaunt off to dinner with my friends to celebrate Matt's impending wedding. As my tongue and mind wrap around a pale white-yellow slice of shiro maguro, the morning's stark black lines on the white page coax me into thinking that sushi is the negative space of the food world--more defined and defining by what's not there than what is. Pureness, like a zen enso rolling around in my belly. 030203 ... krimilda i always thought of sushi like a carnival but the way you just dexcribed it makes me question my tongue and my head 030203 ... di luce sometimes it helps to look at the negative space. 030203 ... minnesota_chris I wish I understood this better. My school of drawing/photography is, bigger is better. But making a small figure, in a field of emptiness, can be very moving. 030407 ... . . 050603 ... z is what designers use to anchor the elements in a composition; it makes tensions that rest and balance that pulls. it is the frame we create to hold the figure. it is the context into which a shape is expressed. sometimes it is everything, pushing forward and becoming the subject. 050603 ... iamd there's never too little space for negativity. it's true i want to be blue sometimes and drown in my sorrows. it feels real sometimes more real than reality. more real than happiness and than i wake up. wake up and too bad its not over yet. it's still early, please help me get me out of this pain. and suddenly, i find Him there, waiting for me. having mercy on me. please make me happy, God. please help me. i get lost along the way but it isn't so bad. times get hard but there's always relief if i fight through. He is true. my space is invaded. with positive light. 090222 ... z interstices 090415 what's it to you? who go blather from