Christopher Cook
Born 1959, United Kingdom
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In a series of 6 drawings made over as many days, Cook explores a structure/chaos dialogue by utilising the action of gravity on liquid graphite drops. The complete sequence of drawings was made during a residency at the Eden Project, UK, developed in tandem with the system-poem 'a thoroughbred golden calf', based on the standard alphabetical coding of DNA structure. Observing the consequences of chaotic action on regulated marks became a daily vigil during this period, informing his larger graphite paintings, and allowing him to consider concepts of genetics, growth and environmental pressure. The extensive sequence was regularly subjected to rigorous aesthetic pruning, mimicking forces of natural selection and was eventually combined with the poem in a bookwork.