Is Emptiness Really Empty?

To fear emptiness is to fear our own nature.

Ena Dahl
Ena Dahl
Nov 4 · 5 min read

Horror Vacui, from the Latin, fear of emptiness, is an expression used in art and design to define the tendency of filling up all the empty space.⁣

Hailing from a graphic design background, I was confronted with my own Horror Vacui in my first year of art school. Making the classic newbie-mistake of wanting to cover every part of the page…

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Ena Dahl

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Sensualist, storyteller, artist, muse | Space alchemist & transmuter of trauma through self-expression | Topics: sex and/or healing, pleasure, pain & poetry

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