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Sculptor OverviewMorgan JonesArtist Statement: This group of sculptures, eight wall-mounted and one freestanding, continue my preoccupation with enclosure and release. Essentially this is an installation. The central piece of sculpture - Keys – is pivotal to each of the wall-pieces. The eight keys that hang beneath its arch symbolise release. Towards the end of 2004 my wife Pat and I went on a ship’s tour of the Black Sea. When we returned home I cut out a silhouette of the Black Sea in aluminium, painted it yellow, and realised there were other geographical areas that were equally ‘restricted’ in their different ways. The bleakest of these was the Warsaw Ghetto. Less horrifying, though equally as damaging to the spirit of freedom, was the division of Berlin. These, with Los Alamos – where the Manhattan Project took place that developed the first atomic bomb – are now historical. With Pebble Beach, a gated community in California, the restricted entry into this settlement is the choice of the people who live there. This is somewhat different to the roofed wall surrounding the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Presumably the need for this occurred in an earlier century to ward off invaders. These wall-pieces have this in common: for either racial, political, religious or social reasons, they are areas where people have been restricted in their movements. Barring the obvious ones of the Warsaw Ghetto and Cuba, I have visited most of these places. Morgan Jones ; "The Big D") |