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Refracting Bush

This is not an essay, nor a review, nor very much of an interrogation, which means (perhaps) it fails to fulfill the intended desires of the editors. Nor does this fractured writing posit itself as daring to do much of anything, whether confronting binaries of Bush versus Cube or otherwise interrupting the hubris of established and power-bent art criticism. Instead, this is a speculation and a way of reflecting through.

This writing is more of a consideration. Of openings and opportunities that happen through what Bush might be. What Bush reaches for and pulls a muscle in doing so.

In other words (and there are so

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