Representation connects what an artwork shows with historical worldview, cultural meaning, ideological structure, viewer position, and the hermeneutic process through which truth becomes present.
Void functions as spatial absence, compositional openness, symbolic silence, and hermeneutic incompleteness across art history, allowing what remains unseen to participate in the production of meaning.
A theoretical framework connecting Panofsky and Gadamer with semiotics, critical theories of visibility, memory studies, morphology, archive, and evidence-based visual interpretation.
Morelli and Ginzburg show how small visual traces can support larger interpretations when observation, comparison, testability, context, and evidential restraint remain methodologically distinct.
