Chainsaw Sculpture – Politics Plus

The Michelangelo of Chainsaw Sculpture

Posted by SoINeedAName at 9:02 am Politics

May 192026

First from yesterday’s post:

“Yesterday, I wore for the first time my third experiment in knitting pants.”

This reminded me of what I think might be my all-time favorite graffiti. It was so well-known and liked that it actually got a write-up in “The New York Times” back in February 1967 – although it’s archived:

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/12/82582599.html?pageNumber=259

The graffiti was originally written in a gay bar in Greenwich Village way back in the day when the Village was pretty much a gay ghetto.

GRAFFITI POSTER:

“My mother made me homosexual.”

Some Wag with a wonderful droll sense of humor wrote right below it:

“Cool! If I buy her the yarn, do you think she’d make me one too?”

.Now to the amazing skill using a chainsaw to create a sculpture:

Gatekeeper(𝔒𝔠𝔢𝔞𝔫sℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱|ℑ𝔪𝔤𝔲𝔯)

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