Horror Vacui

Is there anything more frightening than a empty page? As I fill it in, hopefully I’ll find something interesting to say.

See also: the discredited Aristotelian idea that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’, the technique of filling the entire space of an artwork with images, the fear of emptiness (also known as cenophobia), the dread of the ancient Romans of overstepping their bounds, and artist’s block.

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