Slipknot
Following a week long hiatus, the Clown is back. Slipknot percussionist and artist Shawn Crahan has dusted off his picture boxes and combed through his gnarled memory to bring us some of his most striking images to date. We begin this week with “After the Show,” a shot of a girl with a cigarette that’s aglow with color and life. What blows us away isn’t her bright blue hair, it’s that rough, weatherbeaten hand with chipped black nail polish that makes us wonder if she’s been working in a machine shop — or worse. Click “more” to see the pic and read Clown’s comments.
This is a world I’m usually not a part of. I tend to have as much fun as I can before the show and during the show, and then after the show I pretty much hibernate and crawl into a rabbit hole and disappear. I’m unavailable for anything. But once in a while I can feel the energy that’s there right when we get off the stage and I can tell the circus is going to begin — the aftershow show. This is a couple of lovely ladies that were partaking in the festivities, whatever they may have been. I felt the energy and decided I needed to get off my butt and get out of the hole and make an entrance to see if there was anything worth grabbing on film.
I look and study and then I grab, and I felt that this one was great because there’s a lot of texture and saturation going on from the color of her blue hair to the pink of her knuckles to her nails being half done to the flame of the cigarette. Then you move over to the other girl and she’s got fishnet stockings and there’s a beer cup on the floor. So I’m just swirling around in my mind after a great show and trying to find some other lurking potential that I normally wouldn’t grab.
I’m eaving my coffin and pursuing my own art and furthering my experiment known as life. For me, this shot is all about the hand. Everybody’s like, “Whoa, her hair is so blue,” and I’m like, “Man, check her hand out. It’s all you need to know.”
