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Jimmy Descant
Colorado Sculpture Artist
Descant's art is real, yet there is nothing real about it. So
apparantly, it is unreal.

Funky. Futuristic. Sci Fi. Exciting. Inventive.

And creative.
I like Jimmy Descant's artwork.

Jimmy Descant's artist statement is below:
Jimmy Descant
Deluxe Rocketships and Cypressionism
After seven years developing my own unique talent of space age Constructivism, I have developed my own distinct
style and description of my art: Cypressionism. This term came to me after witnessing Van Gogh's "Starry Night" at
MOMA in NYC. That imagined cypress tree lingering in the foreground, a symbol of grave yards, mourning, and I
believe, the yearning of an artist to find his own in this world and the next.
Cypressionism is not only the tinge of the unknown of the past or future, but refers to the suffix -cy; of, or fact of
being. This feeling, and the terms cyborg, cyber, cyclops, etc.; are all descriptions of my metal cypressionist
paintings. As are cyclotron, cyclo- circle or wheel...; the act of creating these paintings and my sculptures by the
finding and recycling of beautiful past objects. Which were inanimate, but now take flight.

As I build up my sculptures, I see how smaller parts from the whole world of thrift store, garage sales, and flea
market finds can be taken apart and bolted together anew almost seamlessly. I don't do any welding in my work.
My style dictates that I find just the right components to fit together and be bolted or screwed in to look like they've
never been apart.

When I say paintings, I mean that I form these collages by fluidly arranging the found metal pieces from parking
lots and curbs of New Orleans into the forms of robotic women, creatures, an ideas. Then paint on resin to hold
them fast to their canvas, some are old enamel table tops turned upside down to form a tray. These sculptures
when finished and hung give a great depth effect to the viewer.

My art is a reaction to my wonder and imagination concerning the possibilities of manufactured inanimate objects
as art, much as Marcel Duchamp did in the early part of the 20th century. The pieces I use in my work are mostly
from before my time, in an era where space travel would be done in something as fine and stylish as the car
produced in 1957 Detroit or the Art Deco juicer on the counter. But in my form of sculpture they invoke the
innocent promised possibilities of a brilliant future. Not only a future of beauty, but the height of mankind's
industrious nature and the vast potential to do good instead of harm in the objects and tools that he produces.
Thus my art conveys the positive human soul as well as the satisfying esthetic with a sharp edge towards constant
negative sensationalism stimuli from the media and politics.

The ever accelerating planned obsolescence of general products in our society, combined with cheap marketability
and wrongly described "Space Age" beauty, spurns me on to find, collect, and create H.G. Wells or Isaac Asimov's
imaginations and aesthetic hopes of what the future could bring, out of ornate quality crafted found objects of the
past. And with my work, I am trying to respark that imagination of the older folks. Also of that child who has never
really seen in person a real 3-D Rocketship, so that it may let them possibly see their 21st century world with a
historical shadow.
Jimmy Descant talks with John Archer, 86, Denver, at the Cherry Creek Art Festival July 2008.
Photos by Eric Blumer
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Red Rocketship
Silver Red Rocketship
Two cool Descant Deluxe Rocketships
Whatever
Very cool small rocketship
Now playing: "Quench"  by DKO
The Baker Happier Hunting
Grounds Deluxe Rocketship

This was originally
commissioned and built for a
client in Michigan who is
dying of ALS ( Lou Gehrig's
disease). Now he wants it to
be out in the world. He wants
me to sell it. Price - $25,000.
Jimmy Descant - The Rocketman -  Salida, CO
www.deluxerocketships.com

A year after losing most everything in the flood following Katrina, my wife and I set out on an adventure to find the
next place to lay down roots. With recommends and kismet we found Salida, Colorado.

The atmosphere of art and culture in a small town setting was just what we were looking for, with much mention to
the surrounding natural beauty. Being a life long resident of an urban center like New Orleans was unique and
fantastic, but it was time for that change and we knew it. Then came the kick in the pants. There is much to be
said of a complete purge. We lost most all our personal belongings, my early art collection, everyone else's art that
we collected, and my shop full of tools and raw materials.
After setting out last summer on a one way trip I did Cherry Creek Arts Fest and met a cool developer in Denver
who commissioned a whole apt. building of Rocketships, and gave us a place to stay and work, all the while we
were looking for that next permanence.
Now, after living thru more snow this winter than I have ever seen in my lifetime, comes my next phase of my
rocketship career. I have done Cherry Creek Arts Fest for the 5th time, other Co. shows, and am preparing for a
followup solo show at Art and Soul Gallery in Boulder, in Feb.
In 1996, after 10 years on the road working with all kinds of bands, I found a 1952 Kenmore vacuum cleaner at a
flea market, and it changed my life. I left the road life and bought a drill press, and it's been a fantastic 12 year
trip. I don't do any welding in my work, everything is bolted together so that it creates a look of the golden age of
American manufacturing, Art-Deco, and sci-fi when it was mostly imagination and not computer graphics.
Though I get a lot of "destruction" comments, my work neither implies nor depicts guns, bullets, or bombs. These
space vehicles in their arcing flight are meant to conjure thoughts and ideas of positive nonviolent exploration.
With the newest excitement about private space travel, I am thrilled to be show my examples of earlier 20th
Century space vehicles to a new audience. The young who have never seen an actual rocketship in person, not on
a computer or theater screen, and to spark the imagination once again of the older folks who grew up with just
imagination of what Buck Rogers meant and how he traveled.
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