J'ay likes carpets, sweaters, music and solitude. He's trying really hard to "get out there", but it proves to be extremely difficult, for the time being, at least. He also likes to record music, when he has time, and share it with the very few people who are willing to listen.

Ornaments are about craft, and craft is about time. We definitely put a lot of time into ornaments related to J'ay, but they're also from a routine of its own, so their standards of beauty, craftmanship and ornamenthood are their own. But time is definitely, and will always be, one factor unchanged.

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This is J'ay --->

*or rather a representation of him

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J'ay is a character, he's a person, he is J'ay. Being surrounded by objects he creates, he is in a world of his own. In order to make this world visible to others, we create these ornaments depicting J'ay. You can hear him, you can see him, maybe you will also meet him.

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Being detached from the outside, he embodies the idea of a folk-artist, or rather a person whose creativity stays locked up in his own, tiny world. He doesn't talk, bt he wants to communicate. Speech is based on sound, but the context of the sound plays a much bigger role than the content of it. He hates it. He want to convey his feelings purely as they are, even though it may be impossible.

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So far the audio recordings are a bit unclear. I am hesitant to share them here, as I see them as a far away from their ideally conceptualised form. They're too rigid, they're too traditional, they're lies. They do not represent what I hear, nor what J'ay hears and wants others to hear. They're using the formalised language of music which I despise, yet so far this is what came out.

This performance is by far the closest thing that came to my ideal space of sound which I want to achieve. But it's not J'ay. It's me. It shouldn't be here. You should skip it.

But these handmade vinyl copies come a bit closer ot my idea of what MY sound is supposed to sound like. THey've been pressed at my home, using a single lathe-cut copy (a master cut of sorts) which was then made into a mould using silicone, the end result is a resin pouring of that mould.

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