C.B. Murphy  .:. freak show

Betty White and the Alligator Girl

People who don’t know me well wonder why my art is dark. If they meet me socially they wonder why a “nice” fellow would paint such material. Once an African American woman, fresh from working with what they used to call “witch doctors” in Africa, walked through my studio and said, “I get this, this like African art, life and death shown all together.” Read More »

I can’t be the only person who wishes the State Fair still had freaks. Yeah, I know all the arguments against this, but still. Freaks, whoa. Add magical realism and a Manichean struggle for the fate of humanity and well, why was it cancelled? Hell-o? Carnival // HBO Series