Sunset on The Prairie

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Daniela Kröhnert

2020

Plotter Drawing

16.5" x 12"
CMYK fountain pens on 300 gsm hot‑press cotton paper

Description

Sunset on the Prairie uses the plotter’s most minimal vocabulary—short, straight strokes—to build a luminous field of color and light. Kroehnert begins with digital photographs, using software to separate them into color channels before translating the image into geometric instructions that guide a pen plotter fitted with colored markers. Thousands of small linear marks accumulate into a dense texture, recalling Chuck Close’s systematic approach to image-making while pushing it toward abstraction. Part of Kroehnert’s Colo(u)r Fields series, the work balances order and randomness through controlled parameters and variable density, evoking a natural scene not through depiction, but through the optical effect of layered algorithmic gestures.