Jason Sprinkle (November 6, 1969 - May 16, 2005) is a sculptor and guerrilla artist living in Seattle. He is best known for installing balls and chains weighing 700 pounds around the feet of Jonathan Borofsky's Hammering Man outside the Seattle Art Museum and for various other illegal art sculptures left in Westlake Park. This action ended in July 1996 when the last statue of Sprinkle caused fear of the bomb and Sprinkle was jailed for a while. After suffering a mental breakdown in prison, Sprinkle stopped making artwork and became a born-again Christian. He died in 2005 after being hit by a train.
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Life
Spotting was born in Fullerton, California and raised in Seattle. In his youth he got his GED from Job Corps and studied welding craft.
On Labor Day, September 6, 1993, Collision and a group of other Seattle local artists caused a local sensation by illegally installing balls and chains weighing 700 pounds around the feet of Jonathan Borofsky Hammering Man outside the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle Arts Commission Director Wendy Ceccherelli famously criticized the group's actions and publicly stated, "I would not call these artists, I would call them assemblers of attachment." Sprinkle and his friends then start calling themselves Fabricators of the Attachment, or FA, and Sprinkle gets the nickname "Joe Subculture". Other members of Fabricators of the Attachment include Art Donnelly, Rob Shealy and Jim Blanchard. The Ball and Chain is attached to Hammering Man until September 8, when the Seattle Engineering Department deletes it. It was then auctioned for $ 1,300 in October 1993 for fundraising for the Job Corps.
On Valentine's Day 1994 Taburi and Fabricators of the Attachment assembled a 13-foot steel statue from a black heart with a dagger in it titled The Heart of Seattle in Westlake Park in the center of downtown Seattle. Taburi and Fabricators of the Attachment continue to create and illegally install statues in Westlake Park for several years in the mid-1990s, such as the huge Frankenstein -sppins statue named Frankentree .
On July 15, 1996, Sprinkle left another statue in Westlake Park, intending to become his last statue. The statue uses Sprinkle's own pickup truck (always used to send previous sculptures to Westlake Park) with large metal, anatomically composed of 10 feet of human hearts inserted into it. Entitled American Youth Heart , Sprinkle is inspired to create a statue after an unhappy ending of romantic relations and was originally intended to give the statue to President Bill Clinton. It was originally commissioned by Job Corps to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in Washington DC Tabir pushed the heart across all parts of the country and visited several Job Corps sites to give lectures and allow young people to sign hearts. One such sign includes the word "Bomb!", Meant as a slang term to be great. This caused the Seattle Police to call the bomb squad, using a bomb robot and closed the nine-block area in downtown Seattle for four hours.
Sprinkle was arrested and served 33 days in prison as a terrorist suspect. In prison he began suffering from a mental disorder after not being allowed to take prescribed medications. After he got out of prison, Sprinkle visited family members in Mississippi. There he became a born-again Christian and abandoned his artistic ambitions. When he returned to Seattle, his religious beliefs kept him from friends and members of the art community. Sprinkle's artworks are becoming increasingly rare after being captured and only distributed to family and close friends. According to his mother, Sprinkle "does a few pieces, with the cross and the things, but he does not follow through. He just does not have the same encouragement and excitement."
Sow died on May 16, 2005 at the age of 35, when he visited family and worked as a youth minister in Long Beach, Mississippi. He was hit by a freight train and his body was later discovered by a passing train conductor. No witnesses and his death was ruled as an accident.
In October 2008, Seattle artist Doug Parry and Sprinkle's mother attempted to arrange for the use of Ball and Chain used in 1993 installed at Olympic Sculpture Park in downtown Seattle. The statue is owned by developer Tacoma Jan Schmalenberg, which is on display at a Tacoma office building.
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References
External links
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer obituary
- the Seattle Times news
- Essay on Sprinkle
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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