The Proportion of Emptiness: Sixty percent negative space

A room with strictly controlled fill rate. About sixty percent of the floor is completely empty—no furniture, no rugs, no objects, just the material itself; the walls also have large areas of blank space. All items are concentrated in the forty percent area, and their number is minimal: a low table, two cushions, an alcove. This ratio is deliberately calculated: too little blank space loses the sense of emptiness, too much turns it into an unfinished empty house. A corner of the image provides a comparison with an over-filled version—the same objects but dispersed, the empty areas fragmented into several small sections, the overall impression no longer reading as blank space. Avoid: making the two look similar, dispersing objects in the correct version, fragmenting blank areas, increasing the number of objects.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個嚴格控制填充率的房間。地面約有六成完全空著——沒有家具、沒有地毯、沒有物件,只有材料本身;牆面同樣有大面積留白。所有的東西集中在四成的區域內,而且數量極少:一張矮桌、兩個坐墊、一個壁龕。這個比例是刻意計算的:留太少就失去空的感受,留太多會變成未完工的空屋。畫面一角以填充率過高的版本作對照——同樣的物件但分散配置,空的區域被切碎成幾塊小面積,整體不再讀作留白。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本把物件分散、把留白的區域切碎、增加物件的數量。