"The Art of Nothing": An Essay by Joanna Borkowska (Keywords: Metaphysics; Creativity; Nature)
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"For me, the zone of nothingness is a sacred space, a kind of pre-creative state that is essential to my work."
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska The idea of nothingness is one of the most confounding mysteries thinkers face. For millennia, the greatest minds in philosophy, religion, mathematics, and astrophysics have attempted to explain this concept. Yet here we are in the twenty-first century and we still do not seem to know anything certain on this subject, even though it appears to be key to understanding, for example, both the beginning and the end of the Universe. Since I am an artist, and not a philosopher or scientist, I can take the liberty to write on how nothingness influences me and my work. Bu
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