Gestalt

In the final gestalt project, my theme has reached its end with Death. As we will die sooner or later so will nature. Sadly nature seems to be on its way out sooner than what should possibly be. But I wanted to focus on more beauty or positivity in death if that makes any sense. Over the weekend, I saw the movie Mother! which is an allusion to God and how he keeps trying to remake Mother Earth/Nature over and over again. Even though in the end his creations keep destroying Earth. God still tries again and again. And seeing that movie made me want to have a different spin on death than the usual death junk.

With Gestalt, I focused on the law of containment as it fit my theme and it was the easiest to show.

This is part two of my nature themed gestalt project. Part two is titled Destruction as it is all about the destruction of nature by as us humans. I focused mainly on litter as it is 1. easier to photograph than other forms pollution and 2. in Austin litter is everywhere. It is a epidemic here, even here at St. Eds litter seems to be and every nook and cranny. It is also something all of us humans contribute too. Unlike other types of pollution such as oil spills, were a certain group does it. Not everyone drops oil in the ocean.

The issue I had with taking this photos were getting those gestalt principles. As I feel like with others, you could move things around but with litter who wants to touch it? Not me definitely. So I ended up taking photos of litter and when I saw a gestalt principle/law I took a photo of it. So some follow a law, hopefully, while others are just random photos. But I did try to get some gestalt pictures.

But other than that I feel okay about the photos I took.