Think of the largest genre of our nation's artistic symbols: melancholias of city, suburb, town, and farm; the solitude (not loneliness) of Edward Hopper; the choiring voids of Jackson Pollock; emptinesses of open roads, prairies, rivers, and ocean; the ache of the blues; the light across the water from East Egg; the whiteness of the Whale.
As is standard, outer space becomes inner space, the emptiness of the void signalling an emptiness within the characters, which they must battle to return to the bosom of mother Earth.
A diptych of cosmopolitan emptiness and spiritual seeking.
The Suffolk coast becomes a landscape of existential emptiness.
It is as if the emptiness of the void in the grid articulates the structure.
The sensation of sublime emptiness, of a sacred void, explains the enduring romantic appeal of a place like Death Valley, which I wrote about in last week's issue.
"I like this idea of the luminous emptiness of a fluid void," he said.
"Peter, you have made me a whole person, filling not just the voids of emptiness that existed before you, but making me a better, a more loving, and a more generous person," she said.
"Peter," she said, turning to her fiancé at the time, "you have made me a whole person, filling not just the voids of emptiness that existed before you, but making me a better, a more loving and a more generous person".
She addressed him, saying that he had filled "voids of emptiness that existed before you.
