Jay Musler talks about working with Therman Statom. Oral history interview with Jay Musler by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, September 5, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:13.

Jay Musler: Well, Thurman said—he was all—he really liked to help people out a lot. And so he approached me one day and he says, ‘Hey, man,’ you know, ‘We should try blowing these,’ you see, I was making these masks, and I would construct them all out of plate glass, and he said, ‘Well, have you ever thought about blowing them?’ and so, well—I’m not that skilled, I can’t do that. And so he said, ‘I’ll do it.’ So he made these big conical shapes for me out of glass, and I split them in half and made mask heads out of them. [clears throat] And then construct the rest of the sculpture. But he was good that way. Sort of got me moving in a different direction—which led to other things. And yeah, besides that we were good friends. You know, we used to hang out and do things together.