Jay's View - an artist looks at Life

Headed off on another Road Trip - Picked up a Hitch Hiking Tiger

Off on a three part trip. If I'm going to leave the Island I might as well pack in as much as possible.

    Today I drive 8 hours down to Easton, Maryland to drop off two of the large sculptures for the show in June at the Academy of Art Museum. I have the freshly painted Deer Park and Speedo along with a couple of small bronzes.

    Then I'll spend Thursday and Friday at the ART Foundry in Lancaster, PA where they are casting my life sized Dance in bronze. I need to check out the waxes of the last two figures and also put back together the plaster original so that they know exactly what they are trying to reproduce.

    Then on Saturday the is '66 at the Races, a Princeton Class of '66 event. The Hitch Hiking Tiger wanted to go so why not check it out. Should be fun. Our class always liked a good party.

    Then on Sunday I'll head home. Unfortunately I'll miss the Easter Egg Hunt wi
th all six grandchildren, but they will be around for a week. I've been working on cleaning up the swimming pool and it is finally warm and clean so we are sure to have a lot of fun.

Jay

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Flying Around the World, and Unexpected stop in Vienna

If you end up with lemons you might as well makes some lemonade.

My flight from Bangkok to Vienna was delayed because of a traffic jam on the runway in Taipei where it originated. So I missed my connection to Frankfurt so no getting on the scheduled plane to Boston. When we landed in Vienna they were able to reschedule me for a flight that would arrive in Boston only a few hours latter, but too late for me to catch the last ferry to the Vineyard. Bummer! I got the airline to agree they would have to pay for a hotel in Boston, but then I started thinking... If they are going to pay for my hotel, why not stay in Vienna, where I have never been, see the sights, relax and get a good night's sleep and break the marathon trip from Bangkok into two easy pieces. So they checked me into an airport hotel and I took the train into Vienna where I walked around and ended up at the modern art museum.

There were all sorts of profound works (ask Nick about all the hidden meanings in them).

After realizing once again that there is no chance of me being a real artist since I can't help but try to make works that are graceful, beautiful, or just plain fun without without reading expert opinion about how deep and profound it is.

After a good dinner in the museum restaurant surrounded by hip 30 somethings, all smoking, I managed to find my way back to my hotel and get a good nights sleep.

There was enough meat to make a dozen Thai dishes.

Look forward to getting home.

Jay

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Pad Thai on Ko Tao

So after the sun goes down and it cools off a bit it's time for dinner

Sitting at a table on the beach. Less that $8 including a large Singha Beer.

It may look like paradise in the pictures but there are also things like this:

To bad you can't smell it because then you would know that it is raw sewerage flowing out a hundred yards or so down the beach from my hotel.

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Sculpture in the Snow

Woke up to a beautiful day!

The view out our kitchen window

My grand daughter El and I walked out to State Road to get the Sunday New York Times. A pleasant walk through our sculpture garden.

The Courting Swans is appropriate for Valentine's Day

Sunrise in the early morning sun

Can you make out the Jitterbug Dancers?

The shadows from The Dance stand out on the snow behind the steel Meditation Dancer

The Family is waiting to see the action while the Hitch Hiking '66 Tiger just wants a ride

Sometime it is a long cold wait

The snow adds to the Arched Lady's curves

This Family lost its flags in the high winds

Strutting my Stuff

The Jazz Dancers cast a long shadow

Swinging Jenny and the Deer Park play out in the sheep field

Marianne's 50th Birthday present

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blew

You might notice that the Courting Swans has rotated over 90 degrees

Tango Dancers

This pair of Jitterbug Dancers was in the wind and only got a light coating of snow

The snow covered up the Cross Country Skier's tracks

I like the way the light comes through the snow on Speedo and her bike

The more abstract small bronze Dance

7 Baby Mobius Strip

Two more Dancers ready for the trip to ART Research Enterprises Foundry

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Some nice ice on the ponds. So let's go have some fun.

Skating on our pond and Squibnocket January 2014

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Skating on our pond and Squibnocket January 2014

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The winter storm has passed, the snow is melting, but we're still having fun.

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Sledding with my old Flexible Flyer and the new plastic sleds

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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.