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In his recurring series on Noisecreep, Clown Exposure, Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan showcases his love of the visual arts through photography.

Writes Noisecreep contributor Jon Weiderhorn, "One man's junk is another man's jewelry. That's the premise for this week's 'Clown Exposure' photo by Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan. The image is a drainpipe bolted to the cement and rusted over time. The shot is distorted around the edges by Clown's Polaroid manipulation technique, but the picture is pretty much intact. Only where most see a boring drainpipe, the photographer envisions something entirely different."

Clown tells Noisecreep, "I wanted to make it look like this big metal thing is walking... But you got this big brown spots coming from the seams. That's where water is getting through the gutter. Do you know how many years that would take? That's years and years and years of conditioning. Then, I do a little treatment to it. I pull the Polaroid. I got the sun up there in top left. Boom, I have something special to me."

Read the artist's whole account right here.

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