In a New Yorker recently we found a short piece about Keith Allen Johnson, a sculptor from Flowery Branch, Georgia who created a bust of Donald Trump that he planned to present to Trump’s Georgia campaign office. Most notable was the artist’s acute description of Trump’s unique hairstyle:

He does comb his hair in a very creative way,” Johnson said. “He styles it for fullness forward. And then he takes it and he combs it back. And when you do that—and I know this, having once been a professional hair designer—you create a lift. He also has these beautiful side fenders and a classic ducktail. I love his hair. I think it’s his most fantastic feature.”

“Beautiful side fenders.”   We hadn’t thought of them that way, nor of his hair as a unique and original creation. Nor had we realized that Trump has shown a good amount of courage in wearing a hairstyle prone to a great deal of ridicule (including the recent viral photos of his “hair farm”). He refuses to be put in a societal “prison” about how he should wear his hair. 

We came across two diagrams that further illustrate Trumps strange brand of creativity regarding his hair. One is a diagram of what has proven to be a very complex ‘do, NOT an ordinary combover:

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reddit.com

The other shows how Trump’s hair conforms to the Fibonacci Spiral, a curving spiral based on an intricate mathematical formula whose pattern occurs frequently in Nature — galaxies, flower petals, shells to name a few — as well as in the works of artists and architects from Le Corbusier and Dali, because it is considered aesthetically pleasing and harmonious.

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behance.net

As Johnson notes, Trump’s hair may be “his most fantastic feature.”

We are reminded that the Creative is to be found everywhere, even in the most unlikely places…

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3 replies on “The Art of the Hair: Creativity in Trump’s ‘Most Fantastic Feature’

  1. Ridiculous and sublime. Hilarious and instructive. 🙂

  2. From a Georgia-born girl, I believe it is Flowery Branch. Can’t beat that name.

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