You walk into a contemporary art museum and are simply drawn to a page of dots. Of all the colorful, crazy, unusual works why would the eye catch something as simple as a page of dots? Although it seems boring, it actually can be a bold piece of work. If you stare at these dots, do you notice a change, perhaps an image emerging? It’s not you going crazy. It’s you proving the Gestalt psychology theory. People survive off bonds and interactions with other people, animals, ideas, hobbies, and talents. Just like the reality that we try to connect with other things in the world, our mind has a way of connecting us to everything around. We are born observers and natural problem solvers, and therefore will try to put different pieces together like a puzzle. The gestalt theory explains our innate habit of trying to connect and organize things together, just like we put the dots together to form an image. The artist may have intended to put dots at random on a page but for the human eye, it is more difficult to see them as separate entities rather than one piece together. So why is this Gestalt theory so difficult to understand? There is no correct fact that tell us why we perceive things as united, but the simple fact that most humans mind work to unite rather than disperse helps us to complete the picture, not only in art but in everything we do.
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