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[ Chinese and foreign toy network news] Toys are a cut-off entrance that Johnman found to change the trajectory of life, and break the barriers of high art by means of entertainment.

The life of ohnman is like a long Halloween party. In the past 20 years, he has diligently transformed himself into hundreds of "toy people" with different images.

Living Doll is a form of moving sculpture. Sketchers, woodists, and pirates have all been Johnman's attempts, and the candy man is his latest look. Johnman on the stage wore red pants and red gloves. The shaved head of the hair was covered with red and white plaid flower hats, and the same pattern was attached to the eyes. He danced the puppet dance and distributed the candy to the audience in a funny and fun way. At the end of the performance, his rhythm of movement returned to normal, and some viewers stunned: "It turned out to be a real person!"

Johnman was the first mobile sculptor in Germany to try to be a toy man. At the just-concluded 2012 Shenzhen Bay International Fringe Festival, his candy show was first shown in Asia. At the age of 47, he defeated the prestigious Dutch toy man at the World Statue Festival two years ago and won the "World Championship in Mobile Sculpture". He is a toy person in the eyes of the judges who is "extremely different."

"Looking for a path that suits you" is something that Johnman has been trying to do. He sought this path in a way that changed, transforming both the image and the identity.

Multiple identity attempts

Johnman has a suitcase weighing about 20 pounds, and costumes, props, and cosmetics are all included. One hour before the performance, he dragged the treasure chest into the make-up booth on the open-air square of the performance. Johnman opened the box, took out a towel and laid it on the floor. Then he put the two mirrors on the chair and began to trace the eyebrows. “It’s fun to make your own shape. In fact, the secret of the toy man’s make-up is simple. It’s a lot of cosmetics. The skin looks like a doll,” Johnman said easily.

Like many people when they were young, he was also confused about life and had a rebellion against real life. His first job was shipbuilding, and five years later he began to change his mind. "I have been thinking for a long time, I want to find my own way, have a more free and interesting life. So I started a 'anti-family' revolution," Johnman said.

Regardless of his family's incomprehension and opposition, he bid farewell to the boring work. Giving an assistant to the magician opened a new chapter in his life. Five years later, Johnman thanked the job for giving him the opportunity to study props and clothing and learn to make it.

One day in 1992, a friend of Johnman said that he saw the American toy man performing on TV. He thought it was very interesting. He suggested that he try it in Germany and maybe make money. Johnman's toyman career began. His first styling was a gentleman puppet wearing a top hat, and he earned the first pot of gold at a company event.

Since then, he has begun to try his best. He will make himself a plaster-like sculpture and stand with a group of statues, so that you can't tell which one is the real person. He will stand in front of the canvas and let the painter use him as part of the canvas to draw the effect of the entire canvas tearing. He will become a tilted person, and the body can be at a 40 degree angle to the ground without falling.

There are many ways to seek change, and perhaps transforming the image is the simplest and most direct way. The toy man is a cut-off entrance that Johnman finds to change his life. He breaks the barriers of art high in the way of entertaining the public. In addition to makeup for himself, he is also his own costume design and tailor, prop designer, choreographer and so on. Multiple identities make him enjoy, making his life full of imagination and fun.

Whenever a new look emerges in his mind, he begins to conceive props and costume design. Then visit the DIY store every day to search for clothing and props. The candy man's music candy rack is a masterpiece he spent two weeks assembling the microphone stand, breakfast tray and iPod.

The most eye-catching part of the candy man's clothes is the red heart that beats on the chest pocket. In the face of the incomprehensible of the curious, Johnman made a mysterious first hand to the chest, and two seconds later it was actually an MP4. He laughed and said: "As long as you try, simple things will be used to magical effects. When I play the robot , the screen on the chest is the iPad."

The wood man is the toy man that Johnman feels the most difficult to dress up. All parts of the body except the pants should be painted with the same wooden stripes as the pants. Johnman also has to be a stump, and the material of the stump is both plastic and portable. He went to the furniture store and bought a mattress back, just to get the sponge in the mattress. It took nearly four weeks to cut, glue, paint, and color.

“The DIY store and the network are my most important assistants.” He found the props or costumes in the German shop. He sewed himself a set of candy-colored green and white plaid suits, matching green and white plaid shoes, and he found it for two months before he found it in an online store in California.

Seeking the hardships of freedom

Toy people are not toys that are not troubled, but they face the reality of survival as any other work. The inviting party does not pay in time, and the performance is sometimes not favored by some viewers. It is a situation that Johnman has to face in reality. Thus, he pursued freedom in art and was unconsciously transformed by reality.

Johnman began to pay more attention to the psychology of the audience, from doing his favorite art to the art that the public likes. The candy man is the result of his practice. “I used to have a gift distribution, which always aroused the interest of the audience. So I wanted to be a purely distributed toy person.” He said that after three years of candy, the audience’s response has been very good.

Johnman is a perfectionist in styling himself. He coloured himself and looked at his eyes. His own eyes are nearsighted and need to wear a pair of contact lenses. In order to beautify the eyes, he will wear a second layer of patterned lenses. When you perform, you often wear frame glasses for yourself. "The eyes will be uncomfortable, but the audience will look more effective," he said.

To dress up more like a doll, Johnman shaved himself into a bald head. "When I shave every day, I shave my hair together. I can't remember the color of my hair. By seeing if I have hair, I know if I have performed recently." Johnman said that he used to Even shaving his eyebrows made his family unacceptable. Because there is no eyebrow after the makeup remover looks like the patient. He was criticized by his family for "it's too much to pay."

Bitter and bitter, is the life of a toy person. Johnman enjoys the imagination in the free space and time, and turns it into reality, bringing people surprises. As for hardship, he believes that "this is the price of freedom and happiness."

After the performance, Johnman, who had no hair and beard, put on sportswear and had a youthful vigour. He is very happy to hear people praise his young mind and appearance, but he knows that age is indeed a practical problem. "The dolls are all young, I don't know how long I can play. I don't want to wait until the audience says 'you are old' and quit, it's too late. I played for 20 years and I am very lucky." He said In fact, it is only a kind of attempt to be a toy person. It may be a good choice for a toy person to try to be a director.

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