Exhibition - 'Cogn: The Root of I'- 'Drawing, Cogntion and the Human Biped'

This is the most complex observational drawing I have created to date. Drawn in 7.5hrs over two sessions, It follows my study of the human biped's condition as an upright vertebrate, with the brain and feet located at opposite ends. The skeleton of the orang-utan also references our evolution as human beings, losing the opposable thumb on our feet in order that the one on our hands can accomplish more. I am very interested in the 'totipotentiality' of the human to utilise the whole body as a tool through plastic evolution. Might it be that the foot is more complex and essential to human evolution than the hand? This works resulted as a collaboration with the School of Bioscience at University of Birmingham where I now present my drawing practice at an annual joint art-science seminar for degree students. The collaboration resulted in an exhibition 'Cogn: root of I' at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham and the Drum, Birmingham in 2015. Critical theory for this work was also underpinned through my MFA research at Goldsmiths University 2015.