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There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at—paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For th
There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at—paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For th
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There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at—paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to perfect over the past ten years: making delicate and unusual objects out of shells.
"Tell me if I am boring you," he says, as he leads me round his apartment showing me his work. There is a fine line between being a bore and being an enthusiast, but Cooke need not worry: he fits into the latter category, helped both by his charm and by the beauty of the things he makes.
He points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments above a fireplace. "I shan’t be at all bothered if people don’t buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they’re adorable. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, ’You must have an exhibition—people ought to see these. We’ll talk to a man who owns an art gallery’. " The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 per cent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command—around £2,000 for the ornaments—and empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make.
There are 86 pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at £225 for a shell-flower in a crystal vase. Cooke insists that he has nothing to do with the prices and is cheerily open about their level: he claims there is nobody else in the world who produces work like his, and, as the gallery-owner told him, "Well, you’re going to stop one day and everybody will want your pieces because there won’t be any more. "
"I do wish, though," says Cooke, "that I’d taken this up a lot earlier, because then I would have been able to produce really wonderful things—at least the potential would have been there. Although the ideas are still there and I’m doing the best I can now, I’m more limited physically than I was when I started. " Still, the work that he has managed to produce is a long way from the common shell constructions that can be found in seaside shops. "I have a miniature mind," he says, and this has resulted in boxes covered in thousands of tiny shells, little shaded pictures made from shells and baskets of astonishingly realistic flowers.
What does the reader learn about Peter Cooke in the first paragraph?
选项
A、He has produced hand-made objects in different materials.
B、He has been praised for his shell objects.
C、He hopes to work with other materials in the future.
D、He has written about his love of making shell objects.
答案
C
解析
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