NEGATIVE SPACE

 In drawing we learn to define the object of our vision by what it is not. In the Tao I never know whether it is the Jar that holds the water or the water that fills the Jar. Is it the dancer that dances the dance, or the dance that defines the dancer dancing? I am drawn to the shadows... to the deep space between the stars. How do I know who I am except by learning what I am not? Being.... Not-being. Night followed by day. As an artist I create the object of my vision in all its beauty or I give shape to the shadows... the dark spaces that in the contrast delineate the pattern that needs to come into being.