Space/NoSpace was conceived during many boring days of liberal arts college classes when my mind and my pen, prompted by only the finest books, authors, and discourse of Western Civilization, were free to wander …
The name “Space/NoSpace” came about because I our class became renown* for my our urge to illustrate everything that came up in discussion on the blackboard with drawings … sometimes even down to the simplest concepts … Like that of the two alternatives: space between something, or no space between something. For this, my classmate’s illustration was not unlike two pairs of parentheses. The first pair, illustrating “Space” between, like so:
) (
And the second pair, illustrating “NoSpace” between them, were depicted as such:
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And so I thought the name, Space/NoSpace was appropriate for this endeavor. My sincerest apologies to all my classmates and professors who had to endure this raffish display.
Anyways, I made many additional drawings, most in the margins of the great books, and then some more recently, that I wish to share with you through this website.
* Rogue hyperbole.
UPDATE: Internet Revisionism! 2011-07-28
According to my classmate’s recollection, she did the original drawing for space/nospace. I’m happy to give credit where credit is due, but I’m still taking the idea and running with it! I don’t have a good memory of the actual incident at the moment, but maybe some day I’ll relive it through hypnosis. The above story has been Internet Revised accordingly!~
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