“4me4you” visits Art First Gallery which featured work by Christopher Cook - a chance encounter on the way down..

Art First Gallery ..>The use of graphite powder in resin and oil suspension has been central to Cook’s practice for over fifteen years, its fleeting instability now mirrored in the current imagery. Where previously we have been taken to eerie motorway tunnels and theatre sets, we now have to work hard to identify cliff paths, skittering walkways, purposeless staircases and gnomic abstractions. Cook says that “the 'way down' is down a Ligurian hillside and also down to the unconscious”. The journey becomes a means of mapping the vagaries of the mind - pathways appear strewn with thornbush and it is possible to lose one’s footing. We sense the familiar but without roots or signifiers. Small, mysterious worlds within hidden cavities pull us in without explanation.