Tara Misenheimer loves hair. She draws hair, she paints hair and she's even brainstormed about hair as a Hollywood hair consultant. This obsession stems from her greater love of 60s and 70s era advertisements, featuring enviable bobs, bouffants and braids. Standing somewhere in between found photography and the cut-and-paste age of graphic design, Tara takes pictures of overlapping retro magazines on a copy stand.

She writes,

My work seeks to make connections between familiar and fundamental properties of hairstyles and sensationalized commercial objects of the era, such as cars, diamonds, swimwear and fashionable trends.

Looking back at another recent contender posting about Aline Smithson, the past is similarly romanticized in Tara's work. Her casual compositions seem randomly conceived yet wholly familiar and comforting. Perhaps all these pastel-colored images of nostalgia from a bygone era provide a fleeting sense of bliss in this time of current economic confusion. These images she's chosen to include are colorful and fun-loving, reminding us of seemingly better days in the imagined history of ourselves. Kind of like a Paul Simon song.