K. Curtis presents “WHITE SPACE – An inquiry into nothingness.” 

Opening at HARMONY COLLECTIVE, 49 Elliot Street, Brattleboro on March 6, 6pm. and running until April 28 these 13 new works examine the questions why do we have to have more, do more, be more? When is it ever enough? And even more importantly who do we not get to be if this is the design of our lives?

She wanted to understand why it is so difficult for her to invite the WHITE SPACE. Playing with her well-established whimsical style and researching the art heroes from the past she found that this inquiry has been examined by many notable musicians, artists and great thinkers.

She observed that “White space or negative space as it is often called provides balance and clarity. It takes away the what is not needed in order to make room for what is essential. All that clutter obscures the what is actually important. White space is the white canvas so anything is possible allowing us to focus on what really matters.”

K. Curtis found WHITE SPACE transformed into EMPTINESS and then NOTHINGNESS as the inquiry advanced.

“I observed my resistance to the WHITE SPACE, and had an epiphany that this lack of emptiness is pervasive all over my life. My home and studio are filled with everything I will need for future projects if I live to be 100. My time is filled with appointments and commitments. My life is filled with rules and formulas for getting it right.”

The big question is, what did this inquiry teach her? She is taking baby steps toward clearing some WHITE SPACE. She calls one day a month NOTHING DAY in which my slate is clean and none of the rules apply

“Last time I did this I drove to Hadley, MA. and while waiting for a store to open witnessed a Hispanic woman break out in a song to her God. I was spellbound. A second woman looked at me and observed that I was glowing.

I am very certain this experience was not on my to-do-list. WHITE SPACE was present and the normal ways of being were banished.” 

For information contact curtisk@together.net