clown Jef Johnson(excerpt from the Michael Mathews interviews)

"...me a clown is not just a role or a character or an archetype. It’s easier for me to think of it as a state of being, or a state of consciousness perhaps, a figure who is in that state, which is somewhere between two realities: between the reality of dreams and the reality of this material place when we wake up and do our lives. And the clown, in the theater or in the circus or in the street or in society historically has always been able to open the door between the two realities and invite us in and give us a broader perspective of our total consciousness, our total being, our total life, not just a comedian who’s making jokes or throwing pies in the face or anything like that. And for me, it’s part of the reason why I do what I do. To try to awaken that deeper root or that consciousness that’s in every person. I think the clown does THAT."

NSFW: Painting of Kim Kardashian. Artist said it was not hard

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/11/kim-kardashian-penis-painting_n_6311550.html

Clown the primordial energy of nature

Jef Johnson "writes Steve Mizrach, “the heyoka reminds his people that the primordial energy of nature is beyond good and evil. It doesn’t correspond to human categories of right and wrong. It doesn’t always follow our preconceptions of what is expected and proper. It doesn’t really care about our human woes and concerns. Like electricity, it can be deadly dangerous, or harnessed for great uses. If we’re too narrow or parochial in trying to understand it, it will zap us in the middle of the night.”