Most people approach art, especially the art of making art, as a delicate conveyance of beauty. That's fine when the artist is concerned with pastels, oils and paints, but there's nothing very delicate about filing and chiseling a block of stone, using actual physical exertion to carve your creative expression.
But these destructive procedures are exactly what lead Jonathan Lundy, the chef and owner of Jonathan at Gratz Park, a Southern fine-dining restaurant in downtown Lexington which will be entering its tenth year of operation under Lundy later this year, to stone sculpture and woodworking, instead of other leisurely forms of expressions.
"Stone, to me, is a lot more important. I like it a lot. It's destructive, aggressive," he said. "I've always had destructive tendencies as a child and as an adult, so I enjoy the aggressive interactions it takes to make it happen.
And though a penchant for destruction may come off as overtly virile