from a statement by artist james mundie: “my on-going series of drawings called prodigies features portraits of ‘anomalous humans’ (sometimes called monstrosities or freaks) in contexts borrowed from artworks of centuries past. in the spirit of the circus or carnival sideshow, where even a three-legged man would be re-invented to appear more interesting, i have created new ‘histories’ for my subjects in which fact and fancy are liberally mingled. the resulting images confront the viewer with something that at once seems familiar, humorous and startling.” fun. via drawn!