The first one of the five large four-piece drawings that form a major part of The Coviad is titled Zodiac, an image of the idea that our fates are fixed in the stars, something that has been traditionally questioned by the philosophers thinking about the freedoms represented by the concept of Passover. I made this drawing in part because I was commissioned to make a series of twelve sculptures in steel of the Zodiac at the same time. The Zodiac has been a favourite subject of many artists of late, perhaps most memorably Ai Wei Wei's Zodiac heads. It seems to me a very strong motif for a Golden Drawing because of the twelve separate and different images coming together compositionally into a golden firmament brimming with thoughts and ideas from the animal and human world.
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