The Art of Relationships: Empty Space
Spent the last few days in deep conversations with my lover about creating empty space in relationships (or as she calls it – negative space). Empty space to frame the beauty of our presence. In the East, the use of space to set off the object of admiration is widespread, – in ikebana, in painting, in zen garden, in feng shui, … martial artists are taught to observe space around opponents, music is formed by sequencing pauses with notes, – the object is defined by its boundary, – by what it’s not, – and boundary is created by space. So,
what if the concept of “empty space” is applied to a relationship in the service of creating wholeness and beauty. What specifically does that mean, and where does that take us? …
removing clutter: unnecessary relationships, unnecessary parts of a relationship, pairing down to reveal the wholeform inside the white noise
and what does it mean to create empty space in the relationship to Self? who must “I” be to stand tall the weight of all that empty space?
