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."