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Due to a bad case of flu last week, I wasn’t able to attend the weekly tutorials ): Hence I did the stencil cutting and paper cutting exercise on my own free time. These were the 3 images I used for the exercise: Image Reference: Coppens, P. V for Vendetta . Retrieved from:  http://philipcoppens.com/vforvendetta.html Image Reference: Barn Swallow . Retrieved from:  http://www.pbase.com/smacomber/image/149499154 Image Reference: Pinterest. Retrieved from: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0e/4b/4a/0e4b4a4e81af8eb880e8e444da6718a6--whale-illustration-whale-art.jpg Stencil Cutting First, I tried to dial up the images to a higher contrast. Looking back, I should have exaggerated the effect further, because when I printed it out the contours weren’t as distinct as I thought. Tracing of the Guy Fawkes mask With areas shaded in I traced the outlines of the Guy Fawkes mask using a tracing paper. Instead of focusing on the lines/outline...

I have always been fascinated by MC Escher’s works of visual illusions. So this week, I’m very glad that the lecture covered his pieces, and how he made use of Gestalt’s principles in the process of creating his intriguing designs. According to the lecture, Gestalt is the psychological term that means ‘unified whole’ (surprising, it is not named after the psychologists/researchers who came up with the idea. I had foolishly assumed at first that there must be someone named Gestalt. Ha!). In essence, it is a collection of theories that attempts to describe how people perceive and interpret images even when they lack meaning, because of how they tend to organise information and visual elements into groups or unified whole or groups. To be honest, even though I have visited the Science Centre so many times in the past, I had no idea the workings behind the illusionary phenomena I was witnessing, such as the Rubin Vase, were all attributed to Gestalt’s Principles. The fundamental p...