You can’t really have art without elision. I think this is true in all media and in all genres.<\/p>\n
The well-chosen edit in a movie, the shift from verse to chorus in a song, the blackout between scenes in a play. All of these things ask us to do the work of filling in.<\/p>\n
When we are required to provide what is missing, then we pay attention, and our imagination becomes engaged. Whether it is the gap between panels in a graphic novel, the unseen off-screen murder in a thriller, or just a brief wordless glance between two potential lovers on stage, the part of the story that is withheld from us can be the greatest tool of storytelling.<\/p>\n
Like the old jingle says: “It’s the nothing that makes us something \/ It’s what we miss that hits the mark \/ It’s what left out that leaves us in \/ It’s the light shining over the dark.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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