Elliott Kozel - January 1

I have been vomiting my whole life. It started when I was about five or six, and has continued ever since.

When I started out, there weren't very many other people vomiting with such consistency and passion in the Madison scene, so I was lucky enough to be recognized as Madison's finest in the field. For years I would get paid vomiting gigs at birthday parties, frat houses, barmitzvahs and funerals, and life seemed like it couldn't get any better. I mean, I was getting two or three hundred dollars a pop at these things, and remember that this was all cash, tax free, baby.

Everything was going swell until the my manager lost his marbles and destroyed my life savings and stole all my credit cards.

I was forced to live on the streets and babysit Matthew Barney's cousin's children to get by. Little Rocco and Greylin inspired me to go to a nearby christian college and get my life together and make clay pots. So I did that for a while. It was during that period that I created most of the art you see here today. It couldn't have been done without the help and inpiration of Rocco and Greylin, nor the double-triple Masters p.h. Doctorate degree in FFFiiiine Art I received from the Tuskegee Institute. Vomiting (also throwing up or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth.