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JAY OWENS

Medium: Clay & Wood , Open Studios , Sculpture & Metal , Visual Arts

Contact Information

(864) 517-2235

[email protected]

www.built-by-jay.comhttps://instagram.com/builtbyjay1/

Artist Statement

"Wait, there is too much world, so it's better to concentrate on particulars rather than the whole.

I make things out of clay. Some of the things I make can be used to serve food. They also serve as a platform to express, to draw. While the clay is semi-hard I carve drawings into the surface of the clay pot. At times the drawings leap from the flat surface into a three dimensional form.

Lunch pail punchlist:
Represent layers of vegetation/lushness
Structure
Waste...renewel
Damage,demise,dismissive
Rebirth, renewel, all over again
Color. form.
Habitat. Houses.Rural
Roads. Paths to Dreamland.
Dreamland passages. Theme parks.
escapism. Theme parks of misery.
Vines, trees, layered memory.

Push/pull
Round and round
Dipped/brushed/WAIT
Sit/WAIT/look
BEGIN
Glaze/color
Shiny,matte, somewhere in between
OK, now it's flowing
[MORE]Glaze/color
Load kiln/program/FIRE

Let go:HEAT ACTION

[to submit the culmination of ideas (pots/sculpture) and thought to the action of heat is to collaborate with the dynamic force of heat on my working understanding of what the earthly elements of clay do in the presence of fire]

Unload
WOW/ah man/not quite
(Begin again)

""The greatest commitments are to experiences with no known end points""
Sarah Manguso-300 Arguments"

Directions

Drive north on 276 and merge onto Hwy 25. At Little Texas Rd, take a right. Drive approximately 2 miles. Take a left onto Windtree Ct. The house/ studio is the 4th on the right.