A colleague recently mentioned the value of "... doing research in the white spaces ..." — attending to the gaps between what others are doing, the holes that need filling, the missing steps where something important might be hiding.

How obvious, and how often overlooked — not just in "research", but in every moment. And, turning that around, what about the "blackspace", the plenum (a wonderful word!) that's full, or seems to be ...

And then: everything in between ...

(cf. Mandatory Inversion (1999-09-02), MarginAlia (2001-03-12), Between (2009-12-10), Space Between (2013-10-13), Pause and Breathe (2014-07-25), Attention, Attention, Attention (2015-03-03), Betwixt (2015-07-04), Mantra - Gap (2015-11-11), ...) - ^z - 2017-05-07