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WE SAY “emptiness” like it’s a bad word. When we think of emptiness, we think of blank slates, deleted and vacant — but is that such a bad thing, when the now-empty space can provide room for the new?

Everything around us is shaped in some version of a square or a circle. Whether it’s the newspaper or the mobile phone screen on which you are reading this article, or the cup in which your morning ...