The Reassuring and Calming Effect of Collected Flickering Memories on a Distant, Vacant Horizon

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2022  

color monotype 

11 7/8 x 15 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

I/I 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; annotated "(version I/III) monoptype / unique print from Plexiglas in 3 passes—ink worked reductively—3 related versions on Somerset Natural / Rag" 

 

wove Somerset Natural 

published 

artist 

KEFL346 

$900.00 

In a candid conversation about his work, Kevin Fletcher noted that the horizontal marks within his imagery in The Reassuring and Calming Effect of Collected Flickering Memories on a Distant, Vacant Horizon were created by the edge of a roller. Fletcher described this image as “rolling text on scrolls, the movement traversing the space” and that the imagery recalls to him “the notes of a player piano roll.” His muted palette presents a “rainy, hazy, late-in-day” atmosphere.

Asked about other “tools” that he might use in his monotypes, he stated “anything that won’t scratch the Plexiglas.” He no longer uses brushes but relies on cardboard chips of difference shapes with varying edges. Fletcher composes from the edges of the image inward and most of his marks are made to the right like writing. His images “are not planned—nothing is preordained—it is an open-ended exploration.”