The connection that clarifies this work is Utagawa Hiroshige - not the landscape prints but his preparatory brush studies, in which a mass of overlapping strokes accumulates into something between notation and image before the hand withdraws. Coker's layered pink and red forms operate by the same logic: each pass through the upper cluster adds density without resolution, the whole held together by a single looping outer arc that also, quietly, fails to close.
The connection that clarifies this work is Utagawa Hiroshige - not the landscape prints but his preparatory brush studies, in which a mass of overlapping strokes accumulates into something between notation and image before the hand withdraws. Coker's layered pink and red forms operate by the same logic: each pass through the upper cluster adds density without resolution, the whole held together by a single looping outer arc that also, quietly, fails to close.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery