Joshua Monroe: The Man Who Makes Nude Trump Statues

[tblue37]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/18/artist-behind-naked-trump-statues-says-he-d-love-to-make-a-hillary-statue.html

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The undertaking began in April and required over 1,500 hours of work over the course of four months. Monroe, who works “an average of 15 hours a day, six days a week” at a “day job” he declined to describe, told The Daily Beast that he was averaging “three hours of sleep a night.”

The process of creating the sculpture consisted of two stages, according to Monroe. The first was sculpting the original, 700 pound model in specialty clay using a six-foot-two “hired model with similar proportions” to Trump. After the prototype was complete, Monroe made a giant silicone mold so that he could create identical replicas.

In all, the project required 300 pounds of Monster Makers Oil Clay, 400 pounds of Concrete and Rebar, 400 pounds of Walter E. Disney Clay (for the mold), 1 gallon of smooth cast 300 (liquid resin), and ten gallons of Foam It, costing around $6,000. The INDECLINE spokesperson said the studio had “never worked in this medium before” and found it quite “time consuming.”

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[tblue37]

1. BTW, the article says the sculptor, in his amazing ignorance, originally intended to vote for Trump.

As the project developed, though, he finally actually checked into what Trump was saying:

Eventually, as he worked through the project, however, and heard more of the “amazingly stupid things Trump has said,” he became less excited about the prospect of a Trump presidency.

[m-lekktor]

5. “Hillary’s not much better than Trump so we’ll probably make one of her too,”

So there's that.

[Scarsdale]

2. Model

Poor guy. The model had "similar proportions" to tRump. What a great idea this was. The emporer has no clothes. Also, no ideas, no brains, no class. Poor Donald, lost out in every category. Now, the entire world knows just exactly who and what he is.

[Coyotl]

3. At 70, Trump must have more ass wrinkles than the model.

[tblue37]

4. I am so amused by the expressions on some of those faces!

The young woman up front looks like she is seriously horrified, and the bearded man to the right of the image looks disgusted.

[Coyotl]

6. I love the woman going in for a close up of the teeny weeny peeny. #NakedTrump