Card #45 – ”Use What’s Not There”

Card #45 – ”Use What’s Not There” from the Creative Whack Pack

Available on the iOS App Store and as a physical deck of cards

Look at this card’s drawing (the Image).

If you emphasize its dark area, it looks like a bird. But if you focus on the undrawn space inside, you’ll see a question mark (and — upside down — a seal balancing a ball on its nose).

The 13th-century Sufi poet and mystic Rumi had this insight into the creative process: “Every craftsman searches for what is not there to practice his craft.”

Example: piano virtuoso Artur Schnabel explained the secret of his musical artistry: “I handle the notes no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is were the art resides.”

— Where can you add “space” in a current project.

— How would adding “nothing” be beneficial?

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