Empty Fullness

In Asian art, the empty space holds significance. Opposite of Western thinking in general, the empty space IS as equally the art as is the image itself.  The word "empty fullness" is a a good description of the emergence space. There is an inherent balance in emergence, a union of opposites in relationship. Fullness can only be fullness in relationship with emptiness, and both are needed for wholeness.  The known needs the unknown to be more fully known.

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[Stillmansays.blogspot.com]

this is a beautiful and subtle insight. This is why many people wrongly see Buddhism as nihilistic - they see "nothing" at the center. But that nothingness is actually fullness; a plenum full of unmanifest potential. And as you said but put slightly differently the manifest needs the unmanifest to manifest in new ways. So, as in heaven so as below on the improv stage.

[Michelle James]

"as in heaven so as below on the improv stage" - yes...and it feels that way when it that improv flow, doesn't it :-)