The Spaces Between...Looking Into the Void

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After posting the above designs, I decided to play around with inverting and multiplying them in Photoshop and investigating the abstract spaces which opened up between the repeated images:





This led into a mini-exploration of the Japanese concept of Ma (negative, empty space or void - a concept which I had explored previously in my 2020 Honours degree work) and created a few abstract forms as a result:



 

Some of these are still recognisable from their original forms - some are rather Rorschach-like. I'm not quite sure what use these might be to the overall exhibition or the book design, although it seemed to chime faintly with Derrida's deconstruction of binary oppositions (black/white, say) and therefore seemed to be a physical and literal 'bit between' those boundaries and extremes (black outlines creating forms on white paper) amd therefore somewhat linked to the notion that characters, races and nations in the text are not 'black and white' - bad guys turn out to be good guys and vice versa, deities assumed to be male are explained by their priests as being hermaphroditic, etc. These abstracts may therefore be said to be a kind of visual liminality, but again I'm not sure (yet, if at all ever) what purpose that might serve overall. 

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