Neil Kathol Visual Art

Bored Bones is a good example of, when the work is in progress, let the next step be a function of the mind tasked with solving problems and creating helpful improvisations. Each step was a function of building from a problematic prior mark, until the whole was one big problem left on its own. At one point the work’s colours strongly reminded me of private school uniforms. The horse dominated, and I felt horse-riding and school, related. The yellow wood off-cut is from a 20-year-old process-driven sculpture project. The “flesh tint” paint tube aka Buddha figure (which could refer to figurative work), is old and it’s ideas are ancient but still relevant. Its progression to flatness has been interrupted, its time has stopped. On the horse’s ass there could be a drummer precariously balanced, at the centre there could be a figure falling and shattering a limb. The horse may like sardines, like the homesteader who consumed them 120 years ago and left the can in their field to be baked by the sun; or more likely the horse is muzzled by an oily fish-can.