PHOTOS
The photos I propose to be part of my art practice are ones where something has happened or is happening. These are separate from the usual photos I take – I take a lot of photos, all the time. Most times it is just a giving-in to a weakness or desire, maybe around wanting to hold on to something that caused me to pause or a back-up (i.e. aide memoire). These more ordinary photo habits are probably exercises in seeing. For example I try to think about what thing caught my eye and avoid making a “postcard” or composition; rather, just capture that thing. Simple to say but for me, hard to do. I also go through those usual photos later; delete, edit, crop, etc. So, back to photos I make to be part of my art practice, I try for referential meaning, the scene as a capture of some movement or some change (including things I changed or added). Probably the majority of these relate in some way to concerns of my work: entropic processes, our changing ecology, build-ups or erosions having occurred as a byproduct of the actions of living things (we, included), things deconstructed/cut/dissected/fragments.
Neil Kathol Visual Art 