As I entered the museum gallery in the ancient Cham ruins at My Son, the first thing I noticed was the gesture of the multi-armed god Shiva. The hand over the heart is a universal gesture of love and compassion. A moment later, a tour guide began explaining the significance of the sculpture to his tour group. I anticipated his hand entering the frame, but had no idea that his fingers would fall within inches of Shiva’s fingers. And when they did, I tried to find the moment in time when the fingers would almost touch, yet still leave a sliver of negative space to create tension. It worked just as I had hoped. The tension between hand and hand is there, and so is the tension created by the sudden intrusion of the bare human arm, adding a human dimension to the spiritual sculpture.