White Passage

“In White Passages, duality is expressed though light and dark, negative space and positive form, but Longo attempts to give each element an equal and conceptual weight…. Zen-inspired compositions for the shakuhachi, the traditional Japanese bamboo flute, have exerted a particular type of influence over her conception of space. Emphasis on the meaning of emptiness, the silence between notes as a positive element of music, is fundamental to the tonal contrasts in her paintings and to the relationship between line and plane.”

-Glenn B. Brown, Asian Art News, Associate Professor of Art History, Kansas State University