Jonathan Loxley

When I began sculpting thirty years ago, I investigated my attraction to the complex geometry within natural forms, and attempted to express them in marble, unconsciously looking for order within myself, I now understand.

As I grew older, I began to realise that this order is too complex to fathom, and so I began to just trust in it instead, and was then happy to lose my target of perfection in my work.

So, my sculptures now have marks on them. They are personal and now clearly carved by a human. These marks are a statement in themselves, and say “I am here”. One day they will be read as “I was here.”

They are graffiti, expressing identity – a hopeless, even tragic defiance of mortality.

It is not vandalism, but a kind of worship, because we did not invent form or sculpture – it has always been here, so I just expose it from the background, and being human, I embellish it with the mark of humanity.