Slick 2d Graphics Question

I have a game that looks something like this:

I used g.setClip(x, y, width, height) to clip the drawing region to the white box. But now I can’t draw anything in the black area.

Is there a way to draw something to the black area and still keep the white area clipped?
Also, I would preferably only draw the black area once because it doesn’t change.

use g.clearClip() after you have finished drawing in the clipped area to enable drawing outside it again.