In 2008 Brook was travelling by foot and camel with Tuareg guides in the Jebel Acacus mountains in South West Libya. The natural layering of pigments and different materials inspired a series of large scale drawings directly on the ground. The slight shift and re-alignment of the materials created a temporary counterpoint to the organic rhythms of the landscape and its scale. In 2009 Brook travelled into the vast black volcanic desert of Al Haruj Al Aswad in central Libya. There was a natural progression into making sculptural work that both responded to the rhythms, forms and material of the landscape as well as forming dialogues between the forms themselves and how light influenced these relationships.
