In this article I related some art works I’d made to the Gestalt contact cycle and the modifications or disturbances of contact spoken about in Gestalt.
I described how these art works led me to wonder about various ideas of self in the Gestalt literature. I inquired about Gestalt field theory, and if and how it relates to the idea of a noumenal field, as I intuitively experienced this in relation to my art making practice.
I suggested how Gestalt phenomenological fields and the noumenal field may relate to each other, and that the idea of a noumenal field is a natural extension of Gestalt’s phenomenological field.
The article appeared in the Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand Vol 2 No 2 May 2006.
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