Neil Kathol Visual Art

These were made in about 2015, when there were a lot of people taking risky trips on boats to leave hopelessly difficult lives and seek a new start somewhere better. I also began to notice how ubiquitous empty rice sacks from far away countries, were. Some were being kept for future use in the yard of our guest house in Mexico, near the beach in Veradero. I filled the sack with sand and left it on the part of the beach near the waterline that people walk. I anticipated they would stop and notice it, kick it a bit – just like anything you see as you get closer, and try figure it out. Of course they have an anthropomorphic character to them, a disturbance for a moment.