After realizing that it was impossible to take complete written notes of the innumerable details in Graham Hudson's installation--including a jumble of wooden boxes filled with lit bare lightbulbs, handsaws, two-by-fours, and other debris; multilevel crate flooring; rolls of striped packing tape dangling from the ceiling; a broken swivel chair transformed into a functioning electric lamp topped with a white paper-bag "lampshade"--I then discovered that every careless photograph I took of the work came out looking ravishing. In photographs, the whole gallery-size installation, This sculpture is 18 m long, 2007, was perfectly lit and ideally framed, like some impeccable stage …

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