The space between our ears, or glasses.

The Japanese called it 'ma' in garden design, some people have a lot of it between their ears and others believe that it's actually dark matter.  Negative space: Whatever it is, some people just like using it for artistic effect.

So, tasked with designing an object to celebrate the anniversary of the classic Coca Cola bottle Paul Daly came up with this little masterpiece.  Using the negative space between 2 beautifully crafted crystal glasses he 'pseudo-creates' the best unmade coke bottle of all time.  Genius.


http://pauldaly.com/index.php

Here's a poem from philosopher Lao Tse about this whole negative space (ma) thing: so very profound.:

Thirty spokes meet in the hub,

but the empty space between them

is the essence of the wheel.

Pots are formed from clay,

but the empty space between it

is the essence of the pot.

Walls with windows and doors form the house,

but the empty space within it

is the essence of the house

Ich Mag Marc Woehr

I'm sorry Miss Bugs but I've found a German I like more. Plus I recently read about you and found out that in fact you are two people, a girl and a guy (Miss & Bugs). So, I've moved on and found Marc Woehr. It's a random story of how we met. I was in a backpacker hostel in Munich browsing all the 'tourist' guff out on reception. I spotted a small mag called re.flect with a Sin City looking fashion shot on the front. After realising it was in Deutsche I nearly chucked it. But then I saw these spraypainted, dark, moody cityscapes with his name on. I get a sense of misery and depression out of them interspersed with the lightning blots of flourescent emphasising a glimmer of hope, of creativity maybe, sparking up out of apocalyptic, monochrome highrises.

Time to hear from Marc in his interview for re.flect (the only bit not in German in the whole magazine) : "My favourite colour is black (even though technically it is not a colour)....[I use] techniques to being the 'imagined' onto our spatial plane. I always use a single line as a source, letting it develop into a shape which only seems to truly be."

Ok Marc, so you've totally lost me there, maybe they didn't translate you properly or maybe I need to sit and stare at your work for an extended period of time to see this evolving single line. Even so...ich liebe es.

http://www.marcwoehr.de

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