Jay's View - an artist looks at Life: April 2012

It hasn't rained in so long that i was getting worried I wouldn't get a chance to burn the brush piles before the end of the month when the burn season ends. Then when it finally rained on the Vineyard the wind was blowing so hard that the Fire Chief wouldn't allow burning. Then Wednesday morning it was still...

Who is this Guy?

About Me

Jay: I have always liked making things. I fell in love with art when I spent my 18th summer travelling around Europe. At Princeton I took all the art courses available and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics in 1966. Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, I returned to travelling after getting my Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2. There I learned the skills to make just about anything. That came in handy because one day, sitting in the Sculpture Park at the Hirshorn Museum, I had a vision of creating the Wild Island Sculpture Park on my land in Chilmark. In 1994 I created the monumental sculpture, the Swordfish Harpooner, in Menemsha for the Chilmark Tricentennial. I work with a variety of materials because I view almost everything as sculpture from the placement of driftwood on the beach to the building of my own house and studios. I have a unique way of seeing things and in 1997 I started making my own public access TV show: Jay's View.

Jay's View - an artist looks at Life

Tooth Fairies drop by the studio

Finally got a chance to burn.

First Rhubarb from the garden - strawberries from Cronigs

JV 50 Christmas Special 2002 ©

Building the Swordfish Harpooner - DVD