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P014 → Between Flowers: Aesthetics of Absence

Exploration of Chinese Liubai (留白, white space)—from floral arrangement to space, philosophy, and literature—showing how emptiness, on the page, in space, and in text, creates rhythm, depth, and resonance. 



In Chinese flower arrangement, beauty lies not only in blossoms but in the spaces between them. A vase is seldom crowded; what seems missing is deliberate, like the pause that gives music resonance. White space is not a lack but a presence—a rhythm of restraint and imagination.

This idea extends beyond the vase: gardens frame sky through walls, scrolls leave mountains half-unpainted, poems end unfinished so echoes linger. Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism all affirm that emptiness is meaning, not negation. Beginning with flowers, this book explores white space as both aesthetic and philosophy—an art of leaving room to breathe, shaped by humility, silence, and depth.

Binding method is inspired by the Chinese screen - “white space is what’s being hidden.”

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