Jimmy Descant is a Tucson-based, self-taught sculptor and assemblage artist. He is known among artists as a Severe Re-constructivist. He compounds found objects to create socio-political artwork in a style he calls: ‘Western Futurism.” Jimmy creates his work during live assemblage art performances. Using the objects of the past, Jimmy Descant’s artwork comments on the present while sending a message to the future.
Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Videographers: Nate Huffman, Eryka Dellenbach, Robert Lindberg, Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Editor: Nate Huffman
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