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If Hamilton was the whistle-blower character in the story, I’m sure her words would be carefully crafted and full of intention, irony, and sarcasm, like many of the titles of her works.

Stop hiding behind these invisible clothes, they won’t protect us from anything, least of all ourselves, I can hear her saying, outing everyone, including herself, equally at once. Calling attention both to the private act of noticing (that is, everyone thought the clothes were invisible but no one said a word) and the public act of acknowledging (Zerubavel, 2), (that is, making sure everyone knew everyone else knew all along that the clothes were invisible); all the while cajoling the king, not to hide her ignorance but to secretly relish in his; implicating us in the devilish prank while she thickened the plot. I can hear her chuckling.

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Anitra Hamilton, Smarty Pants, 2000. Army pants, shellac, yellow, green, and brown Smarties in a jungle camouflage pattern. 3’H x 16”W x 12”D. Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto.