I’ve attended another cross-year studio workshop, this time with Michaela focusing on Gestaltism principles and how we can apply them to our work, and to a collective creation, resulting in producing a printed publication at the end of the workshop. We’ve not only had so much fun, because Michaela is a great person and an inspiring tutor / practitioner, but seeing the World through optics of Gestaltism, focusing on every detail in the space surrounding us was a refreshing, fun and unique way to work. (PS. mine are the light purplish pages after yellow :))
The Gestaltism rule I was working with was the rule of PROXIMITY, which says that things closer to each other appear more related than things farther apart. I took a little twist and added a bit of my own interpretation and exploration, and focused on the rule of proximity when it comes to perspective, and how the perspective we are looking at things from, can affect if the rule is or is not applied. Was a fun experience!
On the example above you can see that when the perspective shifts, the idea of the objects being part of one group/shape (left) breaks when moving just a few steps to the left.