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Among those learning to appreciate artwork for the first time, negative space is one of the more baffling aspects of composition. As Western audiences, we are primed to view the artistic process as ...

Columbus sculptor Meg Beech carves a clay sculpture. It’s the silence around the sounds. It’s the empty stage where dancers make moving shapes. It’s the spaces between the words of a poem and the ...

If painting is about filling an empty screen with pigment, then sculpture is the act of creating a new object with weight and volume to fill a vacant space. American artist Michael Heizer (b. 1944) ...

A beautifully designed living room isn’t just about what you add to it – it’s just as much about what you choose to leave out. While many of us instinctively try to fill every corner with furniture, ...

Nature abhors a vacuum. It’s true — if you let it. So many of us have come up believing, especially if we live in small spaces, that every inch of our home needs to be filled. Walls need bookcases and ...

Sometimes less is more when it comes to design, as I reflected while styling the bookshelves in my home office. When I tried to cram in my full collection of vintage metal bakeware, the look was more ...