{"title":"Jason Takala","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHopi silversmith Jason Takala was born July 19, 1955. Jason attended high school in Woodstock, Vermont, but the walls of his dorm were bare.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTo spice things up, he painted a mural depicting a landscape cut by a waterfall. Then he attached a frame around it.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhen school officials saw the work, they were floored by its beauty and promptly added art classes to Takala’s schedule.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThis was his first real attempt at painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHe portrays himself as almost a passive participant in the creation of his popular pieces. “I take my direction from the silver,” says the Holbrook resident and father of five. “In a sense, it talks to me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the 1980”s he moved to Old Oraibi on the Hopi reservation, where his wife, Margie, had grown up.  “After that I really started creating,” he says. Everything is so calm there, your mind goes to a different level.  It all came to me then.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTakala is known for his man-in-the-maze design which represents man emerging from the center of the Earth and migrating to the four directions. 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