Graphite 1979
Coit says of this series of drawings:
“I like graphite. I like the drag, the sound of it going across paper. These works on paper were partially about the creation of a visual echo. Echoes are associated with high Alpine environments, the repetition of sound waves from one side of a valley to another, getting softer as they rebound. I experience frequent auditory echo—perhaps due to my hyper-acoustic hearing—sounds reverberating in my own ear structure.
“In my drawings, an echo is also a gesture or effect that repeats through time—in the next drawing, or series, or in coloration, getting softer and softer. For me, the representation of a drip becomes a visual echo. It deals with memory replication—I remember it in a certain way. Maybe it’s the same drawing, and I’m just rendering it in a different way each time, letting it rebound as the graphite glances off the surfaces.”
