Ding an sich/the thing in itself.

In my reading of Immanuel Kants term "Ding an sich", it is about a modern paradigm. In this modern paradigm, one cannot know things, nature, things and phenomena around us, but we can measure it, make it intelligeble. With this term from the European enlightenment, one might say the contemporary splitting of man and nature, culture and surroundings is established. In my personal experience, this splitting doesnt make sense. We cannot master and make the world intelligeble in an abstract way, however far we have achieved in material properity this way. We actually experience, the world around us in a fundamnetally relative way. I think my work and these images is about relating, about belonging, about being part of the world, not outside or mastering it. It is about a deep feeling of belonging when I walk in the forest, when I walk along the beaches, and also about this modern splitting of culture and nature, that in many ways are conditional. It is about melancholic longing, and the certain poetry that is opened accepting this longing or yeraning.