Neil Kathol Visual Art

This picture is painted on all sides of the stretcher. I think this was done out of pure intuition and desire to “finish” the entire object (stretcher). This perhaps diminishes the “read” as a window or illusion of space. Perhaps it added something of benefit. The imagery and colour was influenced by Japanese visual art and the idea of day and night in the same frame. The dark side contains an example of one of Josef Albers’ remarkable studies. The shared, “sharp” edge of two colours with very different hue (here the mountain/moon motifs versus the night sky) can “blur” in our sight (like how things can look at night). Also, the moon is only slightly “more colourful” than the mountain but looked at carefully, our visual sense lets it “pop”.