the forgotten circus

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Sissignore 1968

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behind the scenes🎪😼🤡

I did a fanart of My oc, Chomporin, he's a clown with a cat design ❤️

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05/01/22

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Cirque du Soleil

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Medical school costume party with a circus theme

(Martha Holmes. 1947)

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[back-then]

Circus and Vaudeville Contortionist, Lily Flexmore c. 1905

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Once upon a time, there was a strange circus… (redraw)

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♡  CIRCUS PALS  ♡

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Oddity: Oriental Man Portrayed by: Alex Wong Historical Counterpart: Chinese Acrobats, which were introduced to the Barnum and Bailey circus in the 1900’s. Photo by: Taylor James

BONUS! Rehearsal Info: The metal frame that kept the Oriental Man’s large headpiece in shape actually pierced through the material and led to a bleeding cut on Alex’s head during the first rehearsal for “Come Alive.” The costume department then added an extra layer and some velcro to prevent any more cuts.

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Gloaming, 2019

Ghost Lights, 2019

Blue and Tree Lights, 2018

Red/White Lights, 2018       Joanna Whittle Oil on canvas

From Contemporary British Painting:

The subjects of Whittle’s paintings often take the form of ruins and re-evaluate how these operate in contemporary settings. They explore romantic motifs whilst depicting modern structures with fading sherbet colours and acidic electric lights. Through an enquiry in to picturesque themes the paintings push to the edges of these romantic reflections in order to understand their undercurrent in contemporary landscape painting.

Fairground equipment, tents and other temporary structures are often employed as devices to represent make-shift ruins and themes of fragility, vulnerability and impermanence. Canvas sits in water; ropes are pegged in to fluid land. They are constructed scenes which seem to hold different moments of time concurrently- canvas rots and weeds scramble over surfaces, but some lights remain on or have just been lit. They are spaces where furtive and obscured events have taken place but clues to this are few or misleading. And whilst they have a feeling of oppressive stillness the motile elements such as mud or water seem to be slowly moving the scenes towards a foreboding conclusion.

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