The prisons in the photographs are often clean, plain, almost blank spaces, not all that different from contemporary art galleries and, it would seem, similarly conceived, though with different dynamics of power.
When he does make his way into the classroom, he is often met with blank stares.
Still, the immediate and intended reference is to body-painting traditions across Africa, where skin is often regarded as blank canvas.
Despite the mountain of evidence pointing to an increasingly difficult climb to a permanent position, discussion of career plans is often greeted with blank stares or shrugs.
The blank canvas is often painted with unfounded suspicions.
Lake Tai, on whose shores Ni Zan lived, was a favourite subject of his: the centre of his works is often dominated by a vast, blank lake.This tranquil simplicity contrasts starkly with the layered brushwork of Wang Meng, whose surfaces are dense with ink.
Her pristine blank paper is often first interrupted by figure drawings in varying degrees of resolve, before being gessoed over, drawn upon again, gessoed again -- these steps repeating in a garret she calls "the spatter room" as needed until she arrives at something she likes, "the essence that will undergird the final artwork".
"As is often the case with The Blanks," says Lloyd, "necessity became the mother of invention.
Jazz improvisation is often misconstrued as merely a blank-slate scrawl, its basic substance involving something clever made up on the fly.
(i) The simplest is the formation of one or more state from a blank state, which is often detected at loci that become activated.
