HORROR VACUI: The unbearable density of being By Krista Madsen– OUTER SPACE I learned this expression “horror vacui” from my friend Andrew Smith who writes on the topic starting with the very crammed Garden of Earthly Delights painting by Hieronymus Bosch, filling every millimeter of canvas with his excessively delightful brand of human chaos. The phenomenon of horror vacui from the Latin for fear of empty space, is traditionally applied to visual art, but also took a fun historical detour into the […]
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