Pandemic Images and Gestalt Theory: Introspective Musings About a Series of Digital Art-works

Abstract

In this paper, the author shares his thoughts about the precedents, process, and significance of a series of “digital montage” artworks that he originated during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, he talks about the indebtedness of these works to Gestalt theory, and particularly their use of what is sometimes known as “laws of seeing,” “unit-forming factors,” or inherent “grouping tendencies.”

Keywords

• gestalt theory
• montage
• perceptual organizing principles
• creative process
• camouflage