Falling in love with negative space
When it comes to the concept of “negative space”, we’re perhaps a little too fixated on the “negative” part. The “negative space” in a room, for example, can sometimes describe a problematic area where space is wasted. And it’s true that humans have a fraught relationship with space: we seem to want more of it, but we’re so keen to fill empty spaces in any way we can. We often do this with conversation, TV, food, scrolling, news, physical clutter — as if spaciousness itself is a little frightening.
The thing is that “empty” spaces aren’t really empty at all, and “negative space” isn’t an inherently bad thing. Designers, photographers,
