Untitled Sculpture (aka: Tim the Trashman), 1996–2021.
At age seventeen I created this sculpture while attending the 1996 Missouri Fine Arts Academy.
It was largely made from scavenged construction site items on the campus of SMSU in Springfield, MO … materials that we probably should not have “borrowed.” (In my defense everybody else was doing it.)
At age forty-two I dug it out of the farm barn hayloft while attending the 2021 family Thanksgiving.
Surprisingly, it was easily located under vinyl siding scraps and wood, still in one piece save for its hands and face (I’d kicked around the face in my studio spaces the last 25 years – gone to the hands of time).
Dad and I hosed off the filth, spider webs, bat dung (likely) and wasp nests, made modifications to the paper-taped brain + heart, and added (sink stopper) eyes, farm hat and gloves.
We then hung it up in the garage (above the wiener roast sticks) to be seen regularly on display with many other (practical, non-‘art’) family items and antiques of historical significance.
I have not shown my art publicly in nearly a decade, so this will do just fine.
It’s not quite like making the family fridge, but still an honor, mainly to bond with Dad. I could have easily left it buried with my past, but he’s excited to show it off, being “a real conversation piece.”
—danny joe gibson
Born to Missouri farmers in a 1970s blizzard, flommist Danny Joe Gibson is an artist in Kansas City, MO USA. He became a footnote as graphic artisan DJG Design (2001–11) with a pile of work, notably music posters and packaging. Copyright © DJG. Photos: Mom (?), 1996 / MMG, 2021.
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