Working In his gritty Overtown neighborhood in the heart of Miami, Purvis willed himself into the forefront of outsider art. He'd served some jail time, and emerged to witness a city devastated by poverty and drugs. But somehow he found a way to express his anger and frustration through paint applied to pieces of window frames and other salvaged materials. In a small museum where his friend and patron Larry Clemons had assembled hundreds of his paintings, Purvis showed us how he often starts with small sketches, and also told us how much he liked that show on PBS where they haul a Big Ball of Videotape along in a van. (courtesy of Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations)