In Blackbird in Snow, the bird and branches take up positive space in the top half of the frame. The bottom half of the composition is almost entirely negative space. This creates a sense of ...

Picture a room that’s sparsely furnished and then one that’s crowded, and you’ll have an immediate idea of why positive space in interior design matters. Even when they’re imagined spaces ...

“I didn’t know how to write from a positive space,” Alessia Cara told me during a Zoom call from her downtown Toronto condo, as she discussed her new album, “Love & Hyperbole.” ...