contrast

[OED]: 3. Comparison of objects of like kind whereby the difference of their qualities or characteristics is strikingly brought out; manifest exhibition of opposing qualities; an instance of this; 4. a. That which on comparison with another thing shows a striking difference from it; a person or thing of most opposite qualities.

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Alexander (2004)
Black-white and dark-light contrast are the most common kinds. Empty-full, solid-void, busy-silent, red-green and blue-yellow are all possible forms of contrast, too. However the most important contrasts do not merely show variety of form…but represent true opposites, which essentially annihilate each other when they are superimposed (p 200). Contrast is the thing which creates differentiation, and allows differentiation. It is the differentiation of the void which gives birth to matter. All differentiation requires that contrast is created in space, in order to give birth to anything at all (p 203).
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