I took the picture above in Amsterdam a few years ago. Then, the
other night while surfing the internet, I unexpectedly came upon the
image below. I found their
resemblance uncanny. Yet, the picture below is the plotting of electric
fields of
positive and negative particles; the image above is a reflection of a
bridge on a Dutch canal. What does this mean? Is it evidence that
universal shapes recur in Nature and Art? I can only tell you this:
that at the moment I
saw the picture below, I felt the gestalt of recognition from having
seen the same shapes on the water.