Jay's View - an artist looks at Life: July 2015

July 5, 2015

I got a call this morning that Allen had some sheep ready for me to pick up. Dashiell came along to help and to learn the ropes.

Dash was very impressed with Allen's no nonsense handing of the sheep

The sheep were happy to come live in Chilmark at the Wild Island Sculpture Garden for the summer

El tryed to hand feed the sheep, but they don't trust us yet

The clap pit is like quick sand, but fortunately not very deep

A new sculpture - one of my Sentinel Series.

Hard to Imagine a finer place for sculpture

After a delicious family dinner cooked by Marianne we all watched the USA Women win the World Cup. Way to go ladies!

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 I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2.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.