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The setting as the halo, the performance as the backer to the souvenir. Literally. Swirl the cultural object. "appends the abstraction we want, that we associate with painting while giving the value of the photographic, the 'abstraction' performs the work of 'art'. ...the mechanistic process of reproduction doesn't ruin it." The symbolic processes of art become literal, literalification.
Is all art just twirling culture into composition? to make it mean as art? Finding the twist you like?
See too: Eliza Douglas, Calida Rawles at Various Small Fires,