Gestalt

My painting professor at BCCC used to walk around the room, expounding upon the importance of "gestalt". Good story, I know.

She explained it as "the overall image, parts coming together to form a whole, the bigger picture". In greater depth it refers to the way in which positive and negative space come together to form the entire image.

While you can see definitive positive and negative shapes in my Illustrator drawing, it is probably not the most clear example of gestalt because it is abstract.

And I still dislike/am afraid of computers. My laptop totally owns me.

the picture is from "http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm"