Graduation Contest: Runner-up #5
By Jean Tuttle
The details in the image (the pointing finger, the hand as a fig leaf, the grey brick wall against the green garden) all serve to tell the same story over and over again - which is an image construction more akin to a Rockwell than to a New Yorker cover. In a New Yorker cover, each detail often serves to tell a different part of the story. Still, this does seem to be how college students feel about their alma maters these days. We admire the artist for putting her finger on that feeling of being kicked out.
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This was before we all started putting the Blown Covers logo on our entries instead — oops! (Not a real New Yorker...
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Behind the scenes atThe New Yorker with art editor 