“Wait ’til they get a load of me.”
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.”
“One by One, they’ll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall.”
“If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Ha ha ha!”
“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? You had a bad day and everything changed.”
“I’m not mad at all! I’m just differently sane.”
So let me take a reprieve from my Joker quotes and speak a little about this shoot. I think it shows in the photos, I tapped into a side of myself that I don’t often. We try hard to hide it, but deep inside, we’re all a bit crazy. It’s feared that if you stare into that darkness too long, it will envelop you. Being a person who suppressed so much of my identity and sexuality for so long, I have a different perspective about keeping things locked up. I think when we embrace the crazy once in a while, it actually helps us keep sane. Perhaps it even helps us see the subtle lapses in sanity that we accept in our lives.