Community Writing Workshop : Negative Space with Katherine Nikolau

Language, like any other art, demands the room to breathe. In painting, we call this breathing room “negative space”: that which is purposefully left bare to sculpt the imagery at the center. In found and blackout poetry, we apply this same principle to language, stripping away words to reveal the poem hidden inside an existing text.

In this workshop, facilitated by Katherine Nikolau, participants are invited to bring their own "found texts" — newspapers, magazines, brochures, anything with words — and begin playing with negative space on the page. What new meaning emerges when we remove, rather than add? How can we sculpt language by creating new space for it?

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