Artist Reimagines 2016 Presidential Candidates as Clowns, and It’s Horrifying

If the 2016 presidential election didn’t seem like enough of a circus already, artist Will Espada decided to up the ante with paintings of the major candidates as clowns. By the way, the answer to the question you were about to ask is no, you will not be able to sleep tonight.

Espada runs his studio out of Los Angeles, where his business focused primarily on “focuses on fine art digital archival pigment printing process using high quality color profiled imaging.” However, when he’s not too busy doing that, Espada spends his time reimagining Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the gang as horrifying, multi-colored clowns.

According to his Instagram account, Espada’s been terrifying the Internet since late August. Selection include, but are not limited to, Sanders:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Nov 23, 2015 at 11:27am PST

Trump:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Sep 16, 2015 at 11:54am PDT

Clinton:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Nov 23, 2015 at 11:25am PST

Chris Christie:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Sep 16, 2015 at 12:39pm PDT

Ben Carson:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Nov 17, 2015 at 10:54am PST

Jeb Bush:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Sep 16, 2015 at 11:31am PDT

Mike Huckabee:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Sep 16, 2015 at 11:56am PDT

And many, many others.

For good measure, Espada even threw in a painted Vladimir Putin clown into the mix:

A photo posted by Will Espada (@espadastudio) on Sep 16, 2015 at 11:51am PDT

[h/t Will Espada/Instagram]
[Image via Will Espada/Instagram]

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