Art as a Vehicle for Compassion

I address the range of human experience and emotion in watercolor paintings. Watercolor, much like emotions, is unpredictable and requires special care to harness its infinitely varied and nuanced complexities. Creating such works requires forgiveness in how water and pigment interact, as well as the physical manifestation of subjective experience. These emotional paintings express topics ranging from gender and cultural identity, to mundane life experience. Vulnerability and empathy are required to portray hardship and loss in a manner that honors humanity’s lived experience. Working beyond the boundaries codified by narrative realism, this work seeks to offer a glimpse into the realm of the unknown. My primary themes focus on aspirations, secrets, and dreamlike qualities. For this reason, I call my work ethereal realism. These fleeting moments of inspiration, while difficult to grasp and attuned to distant memories, are fortified through an improvisational painting process. Using subtle symbolism in relation to nature and soft feminine figures, I invite the audience into an alternate space where trauma can be healed, and compassion takes hold. The paintings also make use of negative space, so that viewers can insert themselves in the paintings and infer what might lie beyond humanity. This work does not merely paint a picture of melancholy but opens a window to the divine.

The role of environmental regulation, industrial upgrading and resource allocation on foreign direct investment: Evidence from 276 Chinese cities

Environmental pollution is becoming more and more prevalent in China, accompanied by the excessive expansion of the country's foreign direct investment in the scale of resource-based industries. This article uses the panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2016 to estimate the impact of environmental regulation on foreign direct investment by employing the Spatial Durbin model. The empirical results show that: firstly, environmental regulation, and foreign direct investment have an obvious spatial correlation. Secondly, environmental regulation significantly inhibits foreign direct investment and has significant negative space spillover. Thirdly, non-eastern cities' environmental regulation has significantly greater inhibitory effects on foreign direct investment than eastern cities, and the key cities' environmental regulation has greater inhibitory effects than ordinary cities. Finally, from the perspective of industrial upgrading and resource configuration, environmental regulation has significantly promoted foreign direct investment and have significant negative space spillovers. Therefore, the reasonable use of environmental regulatory measures through industrial upgrading and resource configuration to attract clean, capital-intensive and technology-intensive enterprises and to achieve the effect of "decontamination and clean" for foreign-funded enterprises is critical.

Przedstawienia przestrzeni w formie pozytywu i negatywu

W artykule przeprowadzono porównanie przedstawień przestrzeni dokonanych przez Christophera Alexandra, Rudolfa Arnheima i Yoshinobu Ashiharę. Ich cechą wspólną jest zastosowanie pojęć positive space (przestrzeń pozytywowa) oraz negative space (przestrzeń negatywowa), sformułowanych w oparciu o zjawiska zaczerpnięte z psychologii postaci. Analiza literaturowa nie wskazuje na wykształcenie jednoznacznych definicji tych terminów. Przestrzeń pozytywową i negatywową określa się w odniesieniu do właściwości geometrycznych układu urbanistycznego, jego funkcjonalności, jak również charakterystyki jej postrzegania przez obserwatora, a nawet czynnika intencji twórczej projektanta.

The role of environmental regulation, industrial upgrading and resource allocation on foreign direct investment: Evidence from 276 Chinese cities

Environmental pollution is becoming more and more prevalent in China, accompanied by the excessive expansion of the country's foreign direct investment in the scale of resource-based industries. This article uses the panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2016 to estimate the impact of environmental regulation on foreign direct investment by employing the Spatial Durbin model. The empirical results show that: firstly, environmental regulation, and foreign direct investment have an obvious spatial correlation. Secondly, environmental regulation significantly inhibits foreign direct investment and has significant negative space spillover. Thirdly, non-eastern cities' environmental regulation has significantly greater inhibitory effects on foreign direct investment than eastern cities, and the key cities' environmental regulation has greater inhibitory effects than ordinary cities. Finally, from the perspective of industrial upgrading and resource configuration, environmental regulation has significantly promoted foreign direct investment and have significant negative space spillovers. Therefore, the reasonable use of environmental regulatory measures through industrial upgrading and resource configuration to attract clean, capital-intensive and technology-intensive enterprises and to achieve the effect of "decontamination and clean" for foreign-funded enterprises is critical.

Numerical study of time delay singularly perturbed parabolic differential equations involving both small positive and negative space shifts

A time dependent singularly perturbed differential-difference equation is considered. The problem involves time delay and general small space shift terms. Taylor series approximation is used to expand the space shift term. A robust numerical scheme based on the backward Euler scheme for the time and classical upwind scheme for space is proposed. The convergence analysis is carried out. It is observed that the proposed scheme converges almost first order up to a logarithm term and optimal first order in space on the Shishkin and Bakhvalov–Shishkin mesh, respectively. Numerical results confirm the efficiency of the proposed scheme, which are in agreement with the theoretical bounds.

Study of Novel High-Density Modules with Negative Space between Solar Cells

High-density crystalline silicon modules have recently invoked large interest in PV industry due to its higher efficiency. However, high-density stacking of cells in this kind of module may have additional reliability problem, which might cause higher power loss during outdoor operation. Modules based on half-cut cells have been widely studied due to their higher power output compared with modules based on full cells. When a cell is half cut, its current level is half reduced. When it is 1/3 cut, its current level is decreased by 2/3. However, high-density modules based on 1/3-cut cells have rarely been studied. Therefore, in this work, damp heat (DH), thermal cycle (TC), UV irradiation and humidity freezing (HF) test were utilized to study the power degradation performance of these high-density modules fabricated with 1/3 cut cells. The obtained results show that these novel high-density modules with negative space between 1/3 cut cells have good reliability in various environmental conditions.

Something old, something blue: bereavement and institutional ageism in The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

The dystopian fiction genre within Western media has historically highlighted the flaws associated with societal attempts to achieve an unattainable ideal – or utopia. Through storytelling, these texts highlight the present issues in society, and among them, readers find deeply concerning messages about dehumanisation and oppression. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins is uniquely placed within this larger genre due to the exceptional use of negative space; that is, the text communicates multiple meanings through what Collins includes and does not include. The following article engages in a deep reading of The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil through textual analysis to interpret and describe the message Collins communicates highlighting institutional ageism and bereavement. Consideration for the use of both negative and positive space within narrative construction reveals a story that encourages societal and social change to better care for the mentally ill, geriatric population.

Peningkatan Kualitas Ruang dengan Intervensi Instalasi dari Material Barang Bekas di Hunian Mahasiswa Arsitektur dalam Mata Kuliah Studio Perancangan Dasar 02 Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana

Title: Improving Quality of Space with Intervention of The Installation of Used Materials in Architecture Student’s Residence, in Basic Design Studio 02 Duta Wacana Christian University This research talks about the basic application of architectural design science with limited materials (response to the COVID-19 pandemic disaster). In this case, students are trained to see opportunities (looking for, identifying, processing, and using) used goods as design materials that can increase architectural usability. The Basic Design Studio (SPD) course builds basic skills of traditional craftsmanship, taste sensitivity, and insightful conceptual ideas. The estuary of the SPD course is to create a space installation to intervene in public spaces (physically) in people's lives with the special purpose of giving positive injections or stimulants to negative (dead) spaces so that they have attractiveness and at the same time can have a positive impact on the environment and society. The method of this research is deductive-qualitative, bringing the theory to see the case of how the intervention of negative space (dead) by SPD 02 students with the spatial installation design of used materials has an impact on people's lives. The output of this study is a standard room installation design from used materials that can improve the quality of negative space (dead) into positive space (living) in the residential and living environment around SPD 02 students, which does not rule out the possibility of being applied to a more spacious area. large.

REDESIGNING A NEGATIVE SPACE THROUGH CPTED IN SUSUKINO DISTRICT, SAPPORO, JAPAN

As an impact of prostitution site, criminality is basically triggered by a negative space; however, prostitution site in Japan is a part of the city. Susukino in Sapporo, for example, plays a role as a tourist attraction as well as a prostitution site. This research aims to figure out how the architectural design in Susukino influences criminality prevention as an effect of prostitution site. Survey and interview were conducted to observe zonation in Susukino and to define a negative space as a problem of the district. Later, seven aspects: 1)Defensible space, 2)Territoriality, 3)Surveillance, 4)Lighting, 5)Landscaping, and 6)Physical security; based on CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environment Design) theory were applied as a basis to propose a safe ambiance in the negative space by increasing street connectivity.