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Nine Crow Clowns

Posted by Maverick ~ on October 8, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography. Tagged: ceremonial life, Clowns, Judy Collins, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nine Crow Clowns, Send in the Clowns, Wendy Red Star.

Nine Crow Clowns, 2012
Wendy Red Star
Crow, Montana, born 1981
Pigment prints on satin canvas

Clowns have long been a part of Crow ceremonial life, and here Wendt Red Star celebrates their contemporary incarnation.  The painting -- a series of nine photographic pigment prints transferred to canvas -- depicts the mischievous figures against a unifying blue background.  Only men portrayed clowns in the past; now, both men and women participate.  They costume themselves as elders, wear pillows to distort their bodies, and don masks to hide their faces.

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