Jon Buck's latest sculptures play on the forms of two ancient objects: bells and boats - warning tocsins and rescue vessels. Seeds of Doubt, in the form of a vessel, both celebrates the beauty of biodiversity and comes with a caution for our planet - transcribed through Jon Buck's universal language of glyphs. The dark blue & speckled pink patina colours and textures the surface of the vessel, which is further marked with crowded raised patterns of glyphs. Most of these represent animals, waves or even digital icons – ‘an image of all life living together on an entangled bank'. 1 This biodiverse scene symbolises a pressing threat to our planet: species extinctions, ecosystem collapse, habitat loss, and climate crisis.
'What do we feel about ourselves as human beings, about our relationship to each other, to other creatures and to the wider environment in general? Science has tried to put us back as part of nature as we rapidly become more isolated from it, can art express this irony?' Jon Buck, 2019.

1. Tim Dee introduction to Jon Buck ‘Time of our Lives’ exhibition catalogue, 2019