Ambiguous Figure/Ground Relationship

Obvious Figure/Ground Relationship

I took these pictures a while ago, but if I had to create a story for where they came from and what they mean, I’d say these are logos originated with some sort of religion but was adapted to fit onto the object in the picture. It looks like a lotus and upon researching the significance of lotuses, it’s often associated with divine beauty. The picture itself has an obvious figure/ground relationship, the lotus shape is the figure and is seperated by the black background. The second picture has a great ambiguous relationship because it’s hard to tell what the subject of the photo is, the white or the black parts of the photo.