Noumenon
Liadin Cooke 2016

This work came out of my interest in renaissance painting and how real a representation of landscape can be. Each object is an examination of a detail in a painting - places one assumes the artists were familiar with in some way or another. It is not known if any of these landscapes exist or can be experienced - but the unfired clay forms, metaphorically scooped out of the ground, enabled me to obtain a birds’ eye view of something previously intangible.

Noumenon is a term describing something beyond the tangible world that can only be known or identified by the intellect. It is something we cannot experience because we cannot sense it.