Visual Research: Closure – Art by Eiko Ojala

This piece by Eiko Ojala cleverly makes use of the gestalt principle: closure. He utilizes multiple silhouettes of heads and arranges all of them to imply the shape of a side profile without actually outlining a head. This piece made me stop and look for a while to take in Ojala’s ingenuity. This illustration may just be an exercise in closure for Ojala but I like to hypothesize that the deeper meaning is how everyone in our lives influences our thoughts. One day, I hope I can achieve this level of creativity and clean execution in my own illustrations.

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