The Noumenon Forest

Noumenon is a term derived from the enlightenment era writer Immanuel Kant. In Kant's conception of metaphysics he separated the world into two categories, the phenonenal world which we know through empirical experience and the Noumenon world which is the world 'in itself' outside of the human experience, which we can only understand a priori (through non empirical experience).

I took this as a title for the tree stump pieces which are painted out in the phenomenal world', as with painting these objects I was rendering them not as they are in ordinary perception and potentially suggesting how they may exist in themselves, in a similar way to how artists like Paul Nash tried to bring out the 'inner qualities' of nature through his paintings, this is something which I am following with the actual objects.

The Noumenon Forest ia a permenent outstellation, which can be viewed, situated at Carreys Close off of Peacock Lane near to the town centre of Leicester, England.