Underground Attack!

On Tuesday 2nd Colourphobia went to UCL's Senate House library ( once again! ) to dive into the books and research our little clown hearts out. 


Having last week spent time researching the black minstrels, this time we went on down the traditional clown route, Commedia Dell'arte and Coulrophobia ( which apparently, theres no books on in that library!) the trip was very eventful, we learnt a lot of little tricks and secretes, which we're not prepared to disclose to just any old soul!! (just yet)


Our trip home found us in the most amazing Sainsbury's EVER, so if you're ever by Tottenham Court Road, pop in there ! its like supermarket dream! so before we all went our separate ways, we decided to play with a wee spot of clowning on the underground!


My, my was it eventful. 


We didn't want to scare our fellow passengers in full clown, make-up and all, on our first day. So we went on wearing our red noses, equipped with a white board and juggling scarves! To see how society responded to us. and most importantly how they responded to us without the face-paint!


After doing several round trips to and from Bond street and Liverpool Street... which is very exhausting! We managed to get a small handful of people to 1. Interact and actually reply to us! and 2. to actually give the juggling scarves a try!


One lady questioned whether our noses where real and said 'oh, where you born with that nose then?' and then went on to tell us about Red Nose Day and the charity behind it. 


However the winner of the day, was when we were waiting on the platform for our train back standing there with a message saying 'Hello Fellow Passengers! How are you?' a little girl saw us smiling her little heart out, waving and then said 'Oh, they're clowns!' witha  giant grin on her face. Oh yes we are! Such a delight to see the innocence of a little girl, brighten our day as well as give us hope for our un-itnteractive tube passangers. Come on London! snap out of following the Rules of the Tube!




Much love.


Colourphoia. xxx


PICTURES TO COME! ONE OF THE COLOURPHOBIAS HAS MISPLACED THEIR CAMERA LEADS!