Gestalt.

Gestalt is the organization  of patterns & the meaning recognition. Gestalt is proximity, similarity, closure, [context], symmetry, & figure ground. "Figure" as to what we look at & "ground" as a neutral remainder. Its the use of scale and proportion that also defies the laws of Gestalt.

There are plenty of patterns in this world and some make sense and some are abstract. Gestalt emphasizes the way pictures are arranged. In McClouds' book, Understanding Comics, he shows how closure is developed as the community let their minds assume the cartoon/artwork to fill in the blank and make it connect. People uses closure so many times they don't even know how many. They do it naturally in order to fix the "hole" they see in order to really understand the message.

Photos, artworks, images may be sometimes abstract but somehow always hold a story and have meaning. It may seem difficult to process but once putting the pieces together, it comes together and the picture starts to become more interesting. Similar to putting pieces of life together that seem totally opposites of one another, but together it'' make sense once you get the bigger picture of things.