Those who have become familiar with Austin and its famous streets, such as South Congress, know that it is packed with tourists, artists, and locals pretty much 24/7. Though it is also packed with an atmosphere of immense culture, this means that we all see the same things over and over again. Photographers often take pictures of the same objects and talented people in the same perspective (over and over again). It was this catharsis that made me closely follow the principles of Gestalt, which are: grouping, containment, repetition, proximity, continuity, and closure; I believe that it has helped to add dimension and purpose to my photographs.
For my project, I first wanted to limit myself to POV—I wanted to take pictures of extreme ups and downs since we, as humans, typically only look and perceive what we see on the street horizontally. I wanted to take pictures of what we ignore—the sky; the ground. The concept changed throughout my journey on SOCO to exploring with lines. My photographs that are representative of Gestalt do so with angles; specifically, in the way that they either interfere or become the center of the image.
(link to student blog: http://sites.stedwards.edu/samezcua/2016/10/05/visu-1311-project-1-sabrina_amezcua/)
