Negative space refers to the space around the image being drawn or represented. Discussing its use happens to be a very fun thing to do when you’re a teenager on a field trip imitating a pretentious critic at a museum. It’s used to define or highlight the object or to make a space for the image that is going to be filled in later either by the artist or the viewer.
So we were delighted to see this yesterday morning:
I’m sure you’re a normal person and lead a regular beaver-unobsessed life, but maybe you already recognized that missing beaver is the famous beaver Mario was forced to paint over all those years ago. Ah memories!
Well, to paraphrase the words of what’s arguably the most imitated scary movie trailer ever made “He’s back!”
And just so you remember where the original sprang from
Come to think of it, I really need to see it all in on place to appreciate the progression:
It was meet that we should make merry,
and be glad: for this thy brother was dead,
and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 15:32
