In his most recent works, Frank continues to experiment with the medium of photography. Memory for the Children was first created as a series of colour inkjet prints made from Polaroid collages. Frank then re-photographed the prints using black-and-white film. These black-and-white versions show his shadow cast across the photographs.

MY FATHER'S COAT, NEW YORK CITY 2001
Collection of the artist, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

For the past 40 years, Frank's art has been largely concerned with both storytelling - the search for a story that relates to his own life - and with memory. Memory for the Children appears to tell a story in images, text, and other fragments, though the links between them are not clear and the viewer can only guess that they relate to memories of significance to the artist. Like photographs in a family album, they are ordered according to a personal logic.

A number of recent digital prints made from Polaroid photographs suggest a set of visual reminders or notes, annotated with hand written text. My Father's Coat, 2000, shows objects which are linked in the artist's mind: 'I hung up the coat in a small room in our house - with all my film cans on the window sill and an Aloe plant (needs a little water)… The writing under the photograph is like sending a postcard - the medal on the coat an imaginary past; the plant is alive and waiting and growing... and I am getting old'.