#Gestalt

2025-10-08

That moment when we're tempted to think our first effort is enough — #TaskAvoidance gives us the distance to apply #Gestalt to what is actually an #AbortiveAttempts, thus proving: #CrasMeliorEst. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A collage with various blacked out texts, and some cautions to the artist not to ABANDON the work too soon.
2025-10-08

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-10-06

Lunes Gestalico.
#gestalt #psicologia

2025-10-05

Keep looking at the project to see what’s *not* there — or what *is* there that doesn’t need to be. (p. 54) #Gestalt

2025-10-03

The chaos is always out there for us to strike out into whenever we can get up the nerve. (p. 49) #Gestalt

2025-09-29

"You see it as a flaw.
Step back.
Look again.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

A piece of black art paper is glued onto a kraft paper background. It is rectangular, but a notch is cut out of the top. Asemic writing seems to indicate measurements and perhaps instructions about the situation.
Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-09-29

Lunes Gestalico.
#gestalt #psicologia

2025-09-26

Be alert to what is missing and fill the gap with meaning. #Gestalt #blogquotes

2025-09-26

Sometimes you need to take a closer look: the pieces may already be there. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

A black-and-white print of Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” has been cut up and rearranged tangram-fashion.
2025-09-25

#Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

2025-09-25

Beyond the safety of our garden there be dragons. There are no paths but those which we make. What if we can’t find a path or make a path? It happens. Sometimes the Hero’s Journey ends in ashes. (p. 49) #Gestalt #Ritual

2025-09-24

Pay attention to what you're looking for, not just what you find. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A dark blue background. In the lower left is a golden circle; within it is a vintage drawing of a fish’s tail. White lettering tells us, “We pull our nets through the life-filled waters, finding the fish though seeking the sea.”
2025-09-22

If you could see it, would it be your target? #Gestalt #AbortiveAttempts #postcardquotes

On a white card, a heavy black painted circle with a black dot in the center.
Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-09-22

Lunes Gestalico.

#psicologia #gestalt

2025-09-21

That moment when we're tempted to think our first effort is enough — #TaskAvoidance gives us the distance to apply #Gestalt to what is actually an #AbortiveAttempts, thus proving: #CrasMeliorEst. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

A collage with various blacked out texts, and some cautions to the artist not to ABANDON the work too soon.
Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-09-15

Lunes Gestalico.

#psicologia #gestalt

2025-09-10

With many a work of a celebrated man I would rather read what he has crossed out than what he has let stand. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.131 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation #Gestalt

Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-09-08

Lunes Gestalico.
#gestalt #psicologia

Javier :mastodon:jrr@mast.lat
2025-09-01

Lunes Gestalico.
#gestalt #psicologia

2025-08-24

The ‘shape’ of the project *will* change — and that’s OK. (p. 54) #Gestalt

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