brain + heart = tim

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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