Trapazoidal niche at Incan site in Ollantaytambo, Peru (source)
Media are mutating from mass to niche. OK. We get that. But this image plucked off the Web this captures not only the tinyness of the word but also the characterteristic that is its primary definition, “an ornamental recess in a wall.”
That recess is a subtraction from the wall and that subtractive quality is what struck me this morning when I [...]