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Works such as the Mount Rushmore-esque on the rocks/Me, 2007-2008, show off the lower-case-r romantic drawing for which Bell is known--washy, miasmic swirls trace wafer-thin figures, dissolving symbols seemingly culled from the likes of Ovid and the Brothers Grimm--alongside ECCE HOMO, 2007, a vitrine containing four large sticks and a diminutive carving of an arm, all bundled together like firewood.
In such moments inhere the contradictory politics of passing, the kind of miasmic effect that prompts Eve Sedgwick to conclude that performance itself is always just "kinda subversive, kinda hegemonic" (qtd.
His book clearly describes a life in what he calls "the miasmic fog that kept the country in darkness during the Apartheid years": the fog of ideology that made it possible for white South Africans to avoid recognizing their brutal exploitation and oppression of the country's black population.
 
 
 
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