JULIAN LYNCH “IN NEW JERSEY” from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

Sigh. There is perhaps no better metaphor for growing up — and more fitting for this tenderest of odes to Julian Lynch’s home state — than a young child discovering the most exquisite creature he has ever seen, then realizing he may have had a hand in wounding it. Stephanie Wuertz’ video is the thought that makes the grass in your parents’ backyard smell a little more bitter than sweet — the repressed horror of the time you crushed on your first lady bug without wanting to, cloaked in the uncertain costume of a dream.
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