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Aaaand you've just generally described any Charles Mudede entry on Slog.
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Tessa Hulls. What color are you? How many zeros are in your bank account? What type of orifices do you have? If you blanched at anyone asking these questions you might understand why an artist might propose that we need terms beyond the ideas we think up to represent one another. Anyone who knows how to break down prefixes could have taken a gander at the neologism that Romson Bustillo proposes for his work (or at least a 14-year who took Latin or anyone who has tried to navigate more than one language). A meta cerebral modifier is word play, a new word for an old strategy of avoiding being typed and stereotyped. Know what's not new? Bustillo's practice. Marita Dingus is his mentor. He has been working in Seattle as an artist for over two decades. The lack of respect you show for his practice, and the lack of curiosity about who he is as a visual artist frustrates me as your reader. The description you gave of the work is poor, only to be followed by the left-handed compliment you give at the end. Really? You might actually "like" the work after panning the show because you did not like the press release? Well, who cares? Your review peddles stereotypes that artists cannot write for themselves. You also regurgitated a talk that Jen Graves did at Brown Paper Tickets. The best arts writing never takes a cheap shot. It looks for the unexamined. It suggest to folks that even the confounding can begin to be understood on its own terms. It's written by people who think for themselves instead of trying to get a dime in the "cool kids" jar. Try writing with less entitlement and more imagination.
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Tessa Hulls: What color are you? How many zeros are in your bank account? What type of orifices do you have? If you blanched at anyone asking these questions you might understand why an artist might propose that we need terms beyond the ideas we think up to represent one another.

Anyone who knows how to break down prefixes could have taken a gander at the neologism that Romson Bustillo proposes for his work (or at least a 14-year who took Latin or anyone who has tried to navigate more than one language, like say an immigrant).

A meta cerebral modifier is word play, a new word for an old strategy of avoiding being typed and stereotyped. Know what's not new? Bustillo's practice. Marita Dingus is his mentor. He has been working in Seattle as an artist for over two decades.

The lack of respect you show for his practice, and the lack of curiosity about who he is as a visual artist frustrates me as your reader. The description you gave of the work is poor, only to be followed by the left-handed compliment you give at the end. Really? You might actually "like" the work after panning the show because you did not like the press release?

Your review peddles stereotypes that artists cannot write for themselves. You regurgitate a talk that Jen Graves did at Brown Paper Tickets. The best arts writing never takes a cheap shot. It looks for the unexamined. It suggest to folks that even the confounding can begin to be understood on its own terms. It's written by people who think for themselves instead of trying to get a dime in the "cool kids" jar.

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