For the duration of this project, titled Negative, I have explored the formal and conceptual possibilities of negative space with regards to denial, absence, erasure and the spaces that exists in, around and in place of objects, words and ideas.

Taking a wide research approach, I initiated with the key aim to learn and uncover connections between strands of visual and contextual research into the historically and politically significant site of Holyrood, Edinburgh.  The result is a diverse body of multimedia works, driven by observational drawing, writing and digital recordings.

The text for this work is paraphrased from John Suler’s writing on photographic negative space and is intended here to create a back and forth tension between the text (positive space) and surrounding image (negative space).

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Research:       https://www.are.na/calum-martin/negative-d-8irte42bw