Ginger Monroe
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Ginger Monroe
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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Joshua "Ginger" Monroe was reunited with his Donald Trump statue Friday, one of five scattered across the United States that have caused buzz all over the world.
It's no accident that the statue ended up in Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights. In fact, Monroe required it when he agreed to do the work pro bono for activist group INDECLINE.
The Garfield Heights native began his career working at nonprofit charity haunted houses in the Cleveland area when he was a teenager. He then traveled the country as an actor and worked at a famous haunted house in Atlanta. He moved to Las Vegas in 2012 to direct on a year-round haunted house show called "Eli Roth's Goretorium," now closed.
Cleveland.com chatted with Monroe Friday before the statue was moved into storage. It will be auctioned off to benefit public arts projects in Coventry Village and throughout Cleveland Heights.
Q: You've got Trump back! Can you talk a little about what happened today?
He's been liberated, he's a free man. We went down to the Cleveland Heights Police Department and they were very gracious and allowed us to pay an impound fee and get him out.
... This is the first one I've actually been able to "liberate." We tried to do one in San Francisco and the police wouldn't let us get it. So they're still hoping to find somebody or have some type of arrest for the people who installed them. Cleveland Heights are more forward thinking in letting us take this out and auction it for public good.
Q: What about the arts community in Cleveland Heights and your personal experience in the area led you to put a statue here?
I grew up in Garfield Heights. Growing up in the Cleveland area, this was one of the cooler places to go. It's very liberal, very open area, in my opinion kind of like our version of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. I used to ... watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Cedar Lee.
I love this city. There were a lot of people who rambled off a list of New York, San Francisco, L.A. Seattle and Cleveland? And I would say "Damn right Cleveland. I love Cleveland."
... Any chance I get I will throw love to this city.
Q: This was one of your requirements for doing the project, right?
I did the project pro bono. It took me about four to five months of strenuous labor. Intensive... I wouldn't say loving, but hate-filled labor, to create this monstrosity. I told them I would only do this if one of the statues went up in my hometown, Cleveland.
Q: Tell me a little bit about the concept.
The concept was not my original concept, it was from INDECLINE. They had the original concept, how they wanted it to look, and the name already set in stone before they even found me as an artist. I was the director of a show on the Las Vegas strip and made some connections with some of the Cirque Du Soleil artists and performers.
After I left that show and the show closed I still do work wit the Cirque Du Soleil people. One of the INDECLINE people were lunching with one of them and threw it out there that they were looking for an artist that could create monsters and had this kind of sculpting ability.
... I had to meet them very discreetly and very cloak-and-dagger style. They pitched me roughly how it was going to go and what they wanted to do and I decided it was a great opportunity for me as an artist not only to display my art but challenge myself.
Q: What kind of reaction have you gotten and what does it mean to you to do something on this sort of scale?
I knew there would definitely be some type of reaction to it. I didn't think it was actually going to break the internet and go as viral as it did. It went worldwide, which was more than anybody could ask for.
I was hoping to get some publicity out of this - I got a lot of publicity out of this. Actually, I didn't even want myself to be really tied in ... that's why I signed it Ginger. I wanted that level of anonymity. I didn't want any backlash or anything because of the political nature and the way it can be perceived. ... Unfortunately (my identity was) sought out.
Q: What's your favorite comment about the statue?
There's so many. Everybody told me in the beginning, don't go on message boards. Don't look at the comments that people make because you're going to be heart-broken. I've never shied away from adversity or confrontation. I've gone on those message boards, I've seen some really interesting comments.
I have to go with the mainstream, the New York Parks Department and the comment they made about the illegal erections , no matter how small, was absolutely astounding. When they chimed in like that with that kind of "Parks and Recreation" comment, I held my sides I was laughing so hard. It was amazing.
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