Gestalt Law on images

1. From town to person

The first image is amazingly expressive according to one of the laws based on Gestalt's. It's one of the typical examples of showing the concept of continuation because it occurs when the design directs the view to the gradual change of other objects. Accordingly, this design naturally forms a fascinating and interesting viewing experience as houses change to cubes, then to leaves and finally to a complete shape of a person. Apart from that, the principle of proximity is another principle that I find it applies to this image as well. Though it's not as obvious as how the continuation has shown, somehow a group of cubes, the ambiguity of the formation of leaves are perceived as a group.

2. What can you see? Naked couple showering or skull?

Second image was purposely chosen to be one of the kinds I like for optical illusion. First of all, the figure and ground is definitely applied to this image when the naked couple are the focus of this image, in contrast to the background where it shows their action has taken place in this eerie shower room. What makes the figure so clear is that they are placed in the middle. Not much proximity here except that the bricks formed as the shape of the arc at the background can be perceived as an unity. Lastly as a typical optical illusion image, it tends to generate dynamism within this image when we are uncertain whichever image comes first. This is what we call multistablity, as it contains two alternative interpretation, the naked couple, and the skull which they form a part of it. Hence, viewing experience for each person can be varied.