Everyone Wears Masks - Every Clown Has Personas

Sometimes, Behind The Mask Or The Paint There Is No Face

A hollow perfect facade, a clown's mask hides; nothing. Our panic and anxiety don't mark us out as unique or special; they make us interchangeable.

This Job, This Life, Is Erasing Me - Mixed Media On Paper


There is an idea of an evil clown; some kind of abstraction.

But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory.

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable...

I simply am not there.

American Psycho (2000 (film not book))

... he's a clown without a face
A sound to fill their silence, a soul that leaves no trace
Every happy song is drowned in, drowned in sorrow
Yet no one sees the tears in his eyes
His dreams are gone, no special song, no tomorrow
No chorus as his spirit slowly dies

- Piano Player, Words by John Murphy, Music by David Sinclair

Feeling went away in the fire
And the fire is still burning
Someone said that we are all liars
It's amazing what I'm learning
All the words you say
When you talk and you talk that way
Burn and melt away
We cry and we die

Hide ourselves inside the sarcasm
The whisper of your name
Another game of jokes and laughter
Clown without a face

- Last Time Out, Skywire by Common Children

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

T. S. Eliot (1925)

Evil Clown

This isn't really who i am, is it?
- Litotes The Clown

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