JOYA STUDIO SITE VISIT: ART DELTA NY

06.10.24

JOYA SITE VISIT: ART DELTA NY in WOODSIDE, QUEENS

If you buy a lot of our candles… then you’ve most likely encountered many of our delightful screen printed vessels. We use many amazing vendors for screen printing, but we’ve also been blessed to have an especially long relationship with Art-Delta NY in Woodside, Queens.

Run by Dave Bewig, Art Delta has been operating for more than 30 years. They print on many things, but their specialty has been glass and bottleware. Visit Art Delta NY's website to learn more about their services.

a). I lived in snow country on the northern island of Hokkaido, quite far from the coast.  I don’t know that I can put it into words, one scent that always takes me back to Ashibetsu is that of the air after a snow fall when it is very very cold, like your nose is about to freeze shut.  Crisp. Clean. Fresh.

b). Certain food smells.  Think short ribs or chitlins searing over natural charcoal with the scents of the sauces in the background (soy sauce or better yet tamari, green onion, sake, sesame, with the slightest hint of garlic).  

Can’t decide.

a). Freshly cooked rice.  The smell of the steam that envelopes your face when you open a rice cooker just as it finishes cooking. 

b). Chanel No. 5.  Very light or even intermittent if possible.  Like you catch the scent, look up from what you are doing and think you just missed seeing someone wearing it walk through the room.

My kitchen table. My day job revolves around turning someone else’s creative vision into a physical object. At my kitchen table, it’s my creative vision.  That is where the ideas that have been mulled and tossed and often refined in detail in my head get put onto paper or into a computer so that they can then be taken to my workshop and turned into reality.  

We were very pleased with how the white and red both came out bold with a solid color pop. The rich color contrast grabs you.

My listening room. I play music and let my mind float free.

To me, it means to chart your own course.  To not be afraid to use the collective wisdom passed down through generations as a guiding force but then make to your own decisions. To own those decisions and willingly accept the consequences.

The act of creation necessitates the losing of all sense of time and place.  You could be doing something that has the outward appearance of a mundane repetitive task or of a traditionally “creative” artistic endeavor.  Either way, when you are so completely absorbed in what you are doing, astride the line between yin and yang, between chaos and order, you are in the act of bringing something new and hopefully good into the world.