PHOTOS
There are many photos but ones shown here are 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. I differentiate those I took out of a weakness or desire to hold on to something that caused me to visually zero-in, or pause. Usually for less than a second, but then I may stop and move around, take what I think arrested me or compose something. Later: delete, edit, crop, etc.
For photos I make to be part of my art practice, I try for referential meaning, the scene as a capture of something changed by others or by things I changed or added.
These may well relate in some way to what I understand to be the concerns of my work: our planet and its human-altered condition, the nature of nature, entropic processes human or natural, the construction of things, things for re-examination after being left after source things were deconstructed (e.g. parts, off-cuts, fragments, cross-sections). Formal concerns like colour, etc.; and, the rhythm and feel of 2D and 3D work, the problems and salient oddities of so-called “abstract” or “cubist” art, expected and unexpected outcomes of naturalistically-made work, accidents.
Neil Kathol Visual Art 