Nashville National Cemetery
Gestalt Principles and Exercise
4. Common Region
Objects with a shared enclosed space or region have a relation. When the focus is divided by regions such as sky and ground, the objects having common barriers and contained are found to have a visual association.
Cemetery Direction, 2020. Digital Photograph.
5. Continuity
Elements following a line or common path are witnessed as related. An association is formed out of the order of a perceived line. Continuity can override differing or shared characteristics so long as the line holds integrity. It also applies to patterns.
Cemetery Continuity, 2020. Digital Photograph.
6. Closure
Finding a relation in pattern by completing an obscured aspect or element. Often it is the negative space between figure/object that reveals the rest of a form. For example, sometimes distances can be indeterminable and the relationship between objects and their positions reveal the depth, like the curvature of a hill revealed by the obscured headstone.
Chain of Command, Closure, 2020. Digital Photograph.
7. Focal Point
It is often the object that stands out the most that holds attention. The difference a figure/object has with it's environment can override many other principles because our eye focuses on contrast as well as order and organized groupings. Our field of vision is always a relational process that compares all the parts as well as the whole, and does so continuously. When we focus on one thing, it pushes all else into the periphery and reinforces this principle.
National Cemetery Visitor, 2020. Digital Photograph.
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