Long Island Artist's Mid-century home.

Jay Sylvester is an artist living and working on Eastern Long Island. He creates art that explores the complex relationship man has with nature. Many of his materials come from the 2 acre property that surround the Mid-century home that he shares with his Creative Director wife, Lynn Mercado.

4 years ago they moved from NYC to Long Island full time, and bought a 1967 split level home that had great bones, but needed a lot of tlc. They gutted and restored their home to lean into the Mid-century philosophy of creating ambiguity between the interior and exterior spaces. They replaced many of the smaller windows with large fixed glass panels that provide a view of their freshwater creek and the wildlife that inhabits it. They even transformed a sunken bar in the livingroom into a tree well, which now holds "Rubberta" their 20 foot tall rubber tree (named by their 4 daughters). They also had the interior celing returned to its raw wood state.

Throughout the home are many of Jay's pieces, which although large in scale, work in harmony with the natural fibers and woods found throughout.

Jay says, "If you had told me in my pretentious art student phase in the East Village, that one day I would get excited by ducklings, I would have never believed you."