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If thinking hurts enjoy the paint…

Immigrants by Shabu Mwangi. PHOTO | FRANK WHALLEY | NATION

By  FRANK WHALLEY

Art driven by intellectual narratives can be rather hard work.

It sometimes requires tiresome thinking to drag the back-story from the image, by which time its corporeal beauty has vapourised in a blur of speculation.

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