Rick Kattelmann

Artist Statement

Photography is a means of enhancing my memory of the visual imagery of life. Every day, we are fortunate to observe millions of scenes. A fraction of those scenes impress with us with their beauty, information, mystery, and other attributes. And some fraction of those impressive scenes we may wish to see again and again. Photography allows us to create a record of some of those scenes and then, if we wish, to modify those recordings to emphasize whatever appealed to us at the time of capture. Similar to our subconsciously-selective memories, photographs allow us to view and share scenes from our lives with a few improvements.