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Margaret Honda — Edge as Silence
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Edge becomes silence
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Artist:
Margaret Honda
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Color absorbs into surface. Edge quiets form. Silence becomes boundary.

Edge as Silence

Margaret Honda — Edge as Silence

The edge withdraws from attention.

Contrast is reduced.

Boundary quiets.

What is set aside?

Contrast and emphasis are commonly used to activate an edge, but that activation does not arrive.

The edge withdraws from attention.

What continues is restraint maintained without disappearance.

Structural Concepts

Reduction
Removal of elements to clarify structure.
Surface
The outer layer where material, light, and touch meet.
Boundary
The limit where one form, field, or space meets another.
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