Blue Man Group founder turns his head into wild canvas for wearable art — he’s ‘making baldness cool’

nypost.com:

a-head of his time.Chris Wink, a New York native and one of the founding members of the iconic performance art company Blue Man Group, has found a new way to express his imaginative soul on the outside — by rocking a variety of intricate mohawks he calls “art fins.”“I’ve got this bald head and, in a weird way, it’s kind of like a blank canvas,” Wink told The Post. “I used to have hair — with Blue Man we would put bald caps on — but at a certain point, I said, ‘F—k it.

I’ll just shave it off,’” he said.And similar to how people express their personalities through hair and nails, he realized he could do that with his head.

Now he’s “making baldness cool.”His wearable pieces range from sculptures made of toy trolls, neon forks, Pez dispensers, mini snow globes, blacklight reactive sea anemones and plastic sushi and are often compared to mohawks — but that isn’t his favorite term. “I don’t love calling it a mohawk because that’s a hairstyle and these are just art … art fins on my head,” he said.Wink has lost count of how many pieces he’s made, but he creates a few a week. “I’ve spent way too much … thousands,” he said.

He makes many of them himself with items he finds online or using random tchotchkes from his travels, and crafts items for specific events or just to walk around in them for fun. “I was wearing one on the street and Chris Rock came up to me and said, ‘Wow, dude, that’s crazy,’” he recalled.He loves wearing his “punk rock” and “aerodynamic” looks out and about because it catches people off guard and gives them “a sense of delight.” Wink, a dad of three, recently wore a headpiece that said “Guts” — named after Olivia Rodrigo’s album — when he went to her concert with his kids.