Illustration by Donna Massa 2010
Description: In this illustration Michael is in traditional French costume dressed and painted as a porcelain clown. He appears stoic with a slight dip in his stance and raised shoulders. His expressive porcelain hands are poised in harmonious symmetry. His facial expression is distant and ambiguous. A rainbow of colors embellishes the curtains surrounding him. He stands on a box podium with the sun’s radiating canary-yellow light totally encircling him. Canary yellow symbolizes all that a clown represents to a child: a warm, bright, happy, funny and cheerful disposition. The two children are offering the clown two balloons as sentimental relics. They’re in awe of his presence, for this clown is different. He is not sad, nor is not happy, and he doesn’t seem to move, so they both wonder, “Is he real?”
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