The representation of empty space as a return to the origin

An aesthetic approach from daoism

Abstract

Nothingness and emptiness are concepts that we can recognize as fundamental in Eastern philosophy, however, unlike the conceptions adopted in the West, in ancient Chinese thought –emphasizing Daoism (??)– nothing was not thought as something with an ontological character, but as an indefinable previous state. In a similar way, empty space manifested itself in the arts as the representation of the place where changes and transformations of reality occurred, pointing to the ideal of the artist in allowing himself to flow during the creative process. In this way the absence was made present, approaching the origin of all things.