The Sweater Incident, 1999, by contender Jill Frank

Jill Frank's Hey, Hot Shot! submission comes from a series of reenactments of fleeting incidents from her childhood. In caricatures of herself and family, or maybe even me and you, she does a decent job at summing up that feeling of painful reminiscence that we all seem to enjoy so much. Regardless of the nostalgic humiliation, her work is humorous and dare I say poetic, she puts it well. As does her accompanying project illustrating her childhood memories of others which you can see on her website here. Now I suppose I'll pass the mic to her...

My return home, after years of living on my own opened a flood of ideas about the idea of family, the absurdity that we experience when we are close to people, and my own memories of childhood that were almost forgotten. My goal became to record the moments that I felt had shaped my family history.

Jill too left New York and is now in Chicago at The School of the Art Institute, meaning neither of us were in attendance at last night's soiree. But thanks to all who went and helped make it the eventful evening that I hear it was!

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