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Respiration - Boundaries

If two adjacent, parallel (overlapping or contiguous) planes are graduated in opposite directions, from dark to light or light to dark, they will share one area where all differences of value are minimized or dissolved. This is an area of what the French call passage or bridge-passage, a fluid middle zone. Important though it may be, it often goes unnoticed. It is that part of a work which provides respiration and transaction between boundaries, form and form, form and space. It makes for form-space continuity. So, then, simultaneous contrast shading, as the term suggests, involves double reversals with subtle open and closed areas ("lost and found edges") and passage--if its use is not to degenerate into formula.

[Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. [See Study 7 on Endotopic-exotopic treatment, pg. 156]

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