i took just one art class in college.
basic drawing.
(i am a late bloomer, to say the least, and hadn’t yet realized that
creating would energize, expand and rock my world.)
we drew still lifes and (fully clothed) live models.
while my peers were perfecting
the curve of a finger or
the shape of an eye,
i was contentedly stuck
in the mud of the negative spaces,
the particularly non-model parts of the compositions.
i am just now branching out
(no pun, well okay – a little pun intended)
and including this concept into my knitting designs.
you can catch my first attempt at capturing negative space
tomorrow, as ‘duplicity’ is released in the winter issue of knitcircus.