Artist Jay Sawyer’s twisted humor revealed in his new alphabet sculptures
Jay Sawyer holding up his welded screw art piece entitled ‘Screw U.’ (Photo by Kay Stephens)
By Kay Stephens
WALDOBORO — Who says art has to be so serious?
Sculpture artist Jay Sawyer, well known for his sculpture garden now known as Studio J Bone in Warren, only needed one letter in the alphabet — e — to trigger his sense of humor. Forging the lowercase version out of iron, he created what he called Iron e. As Alanis Morrisette would say, isn’t it ironic?