[Paul]

Our work to date has been beneath the exhibition name of ‘FALLEN - The new Prometheus’, and it introduced our vision whilst we found our feet as sculptors. Throughout the two years we have handled clay, we have scaled a very steep learning curve, but now we feel it’s levelling out, which scares us, we do like a challenge. This brings us to our next collection, to be created during 2025. The idea for our next exhibition found us. People would say ‘Why do your figures look so sad?’ We realised that we had been sculpting ourselves. You will understand as we tell you about what is to come.

 

Our new exhibition is to be called;

‘The Veil of Reason -The Asylum Project’. This will not just be an exhibition; It’s a reckoning, an exhibition of sculptures and paintings that attempt to communicate the deeper, darker  shadows of the minds of humanity.

 

[Jason]

It is a whisper in the dark corners of the mind, a place where sanity and madness dance intertwined. This is where we look behind the veil of society’s reason, beyond the line drawn by society determining what is and what is not normal, or acceptable behaviour.

 

The figures, contorted, twisted, wracked with something unnameable, will stand before you abstract sentinels, guarding a truth we spend our lives trying to avoid. A truth about what it means to be human, raw and exposed, stripped of all pretence. You see, the world is quick to label, quick to diagnose, quick to turn away. But the sculptures we are creating do not turn away. They will stare back.

 

[Paul]  

This exhibition was born from something deeply personal. Our parents, our anchors, were lost to us, and in their final months, we cared for them as the world shrank around them. Grief has a way of tearing things apart, but for us, it binds us together in a way we never expected. We left behind the lives we once knew and forged a new path, one where sculpting became more than creation; it became our calling.

 

Both of us live with fibromyalgia and other conditions that gnaw at the body and the mind. Chronic pain is an unrelenting thing, a ghost in the bones that refuses to leave. But in sculpting, we found something else, a way to translate that suffering into something tangible, something powerful. It is an anchor in the storm, a distraction from the pain, but also a kind of reckoning. We do not sculpt from comfort. We sculpt because we must. Because the alternative is to be consumed by a relentless barrage of pain, both physical and psychological. 

 

[Jason]

So, if these figures disturb you, if they unsettle you, good. That means they are working. That means they are holding up a mirror to a world that is all too willing to discard those who suffer. But suffering is not the end of the story. Not for them. Not for us. This is not a tale of despair. It is a transmutation—turning loss into creation, pain into purpose, and darkness into something beautiful. And if there is a message in all of this, it is this: we are all closer to the edge than we think. And when the veil is lifted, when reason falls away—what will you see staring back?"  

 

[Paul]

This interview is not just about us as sculptors, not even storytellers, but as witnesses. Witnesses to something intangible, something that lingers just beyond the veil of what we call reality. The Veil of Reason is not just an exhibition—it’s an excavation. A digging, clawing, and desperate pulling at the thin skin that separates sanity from madness, genius from affliction, reason from the abyss.

 

[Jason]

Ceramics, clay—this is not just a material. It is the earth itself. It holds memory, it holds trauma, it holds truth. When we work with it, we are not just shaping form; we are excavating the human condition. Every press of the thumb, every violent carve of a tool, every delicate smoothing of a surface—these are not just techniques. These are echoes of something older, something primal, something screaming to be remembered.

 

[Paul]

And so, we sculpt. We sculpt the contorted limbs, the vacant stares, the eternal gazes of those who exist in that void between genius and suffering. We sculpt because we cannot turn away. We sculpt because the clay remembers what the world's caretakers chooses to forget.  

 

[Jason]

These pieces—these figures, these distorted souls—are not caricatures of mental illness. They are not grotesques to be gawked at. They are mirrors. And if they make you uncomfortable, if they unsettle something deep in the pit of your stomach, then good. That means you are seeing them. That means you are seeing yourself.  

And that is the point of ‘The Veil of Reason. It is not here to soothe you. It is here to haunt you. To stay with you in the quiet moments. To make you wonder, just for a second, whether the ones we call insane are the ones who are truly awake, and we, the comfortable, the rational, are the ones who are sleepwalking."  

 

[Paul]  

Art, ceramics, sculpture, it should not just be something you admire. It should be something you feel in your bones, something that carves into your psyche and leaves a mark. That is what we hope this work will do. That is why we are here. That is why, hopefully 'you' are here.  

 

[Jason]  

And so, we ask you - when you witness the exhibition, when you step back into your 'safe space' of reason, will you give a thought to those beyond the veil of reason?

 

[Paul]

The Veil of Reason is not just an exhibition. It is a question left hanging in the air, a whisper in the back of your mind long after you’ve turned away. If these sculptures unsettle you, if their eyes linger upon you longer than is comfortable, if you feel a pull towards them, then perhaps it is because they recognize something in you. Something unspoken. Something you have buried. 

We invite you—no, we challenge you—to step closer. To look into their eyes and, just for a moment, let them look back into yours. And when you walk away, ask yourself: Who is truly awake? Are trapped behind the veil?