WILL BENEDICT
in conversation with Steffen Jørgensen
Courtesy: the artists
Courtesy: the artists
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN
Sometimes when we work it’s like you’re sitting on my lap and I’m telling you a story.
WILL BENEDICT
What’s the story?
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN
People seem to be really divided on clowns.
WILL BENEDICT
You like clowns. You know Cirque du Soleil is struggling. They went bankrupt during Covid then restructured and are performing again but yesterday they announced that The Beatles LOVE was closing at The Mirage. I saw Mystère at Treasure Island in 2010 and there was this amazing performer called Big Baby who had been the Big Baby at Treasure Island for 20 years so people really saw him grow as a baby over time. I think this is your dream job.
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN
Did he wear a diaper?
WILL BENEDICT
Yes.
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN
Interesting. I recently saw some drawings on the internet of a woman on all fours shitting into diapers which had become so enlarged with shit that the diaper was 4 times the size of the woman and the artist had drawn a face on the diaper and given the diaper a hairdo.
WILL BENEDICT
Furries are into diapers too. Which I always found funny because it makes perfect sense for them to wear the diaper on the inside of the suit because getting that costume on and off must be some work but they wear the diapers on the outside of the suit. I guess it lets us know that the furry’s fursona is in fact real anatomy.
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN
I wonder if diaper furries are just a rare sub-sect of furries and all the other furries are frustrated and embarrassed by them since the diaper furries get all the press and make the non-diaper wearing furries feel like deviants.