Pierrot, the sad clown, is one of art history's most enduring characters, a stock figure whose humanity makes it painful to watch him play the fool. On "The Clown," the first single off Mega Bog's ...

Sira Sirivanis asked as she stopped to consider the stenciled work of a sad clown praying. “Even a clown needs God,” she said before falling to her knees to pray in front of the street art work.

In the image, Golyshkina adopts the persona of an artist reimagined as a sad clown. The environment around her is constructed largely out of paper, including a drawing of a balloon tied to a string, ...