Last night I watched Independent Lens documentarty called Helvetica which focused on the extraordinary font designed in the late 1950's. It got me thinking about negative and positive space and the importance of its equality in composition. In interiors, whether the experience is horror vacui or ultra minimal, it is the yin yan of positve and negative space which triggers our emotianal comfort level. My fascination is how each of us react so differently to what occupies space. Accumulation is as as comforting to some as object absence is to others. What is the personal trigger? Who knows? I must say that for the most part I would prefer a rather empty room with comfy chair and firelplace to one filled to the ceiling. I suppose its the same reason why some of us may eat snails and others oysters.
