Jay started to turn from oil to acrylic painting about the time his son Marlon turned 1 year old, i.e., 1997, and was fully mobile. Oil paints are rather poisonous. You need to paint fast when using acrylic paint and that also added a different perspective to Jay's works. Some of them are shown here. As with the oil paintings, those without an owner are looking for one--except our front door!
"The reef at our door" (2006, 7' x 10') , is based on the underwater view in front of the Melon Patch. It is actually the inside of our front door in Manila and took a few months of work.
"Patching the reef" is a 4-panel painting, totaling 20' x 2' (2004), an environmental statement. On some panels, the patching is done using real, colored "bandaids", shown a little better on the left on one panel.
"Sea urchin spines" (2003, 3'x2') is based on a tiny portion of a digital photo of a venomous sea urchin. Jay found interesting perspecitves in these close ups. Another is shown on the left.
A real departure was this large, mixed medium piece simply called "Environmental statement" (2003, 60" x 39"), mainly a collage of shopping bags. The small acrylic painting is a stylized nude, presidingover dead coral and discarding fish overtures.
