‘Clowning’
Most of us have seen clowns at a circus and have instantly identified the happy and sad clowns, before any dialog has taken place.
There appears to be a universal recognition of emotion and the simplified depiction of the opposing emotions through the clowns painted faces. However in contrast, real human emotions as we all experience them, seem far more fleeting and complex than this.
The four clowns depicted here will hopefully get the viewer to question how close happiness really is to sadness, likewise love to hate, and even whether one emotion can be felt or understood in such isolation.
Do we possibly all sometimes ‘clown’ by putting on a false face to hide how we really feel?
