“Passing Arrivals”

Artist: Greg Busch

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In Passing Arrivals, Greg Busch distills centuries of cultural displacement, ritual, and assimilation into a single visual meditation. Three figures — distinct in origin, style, and intent — share a frame but not a language. A young indigenous boy, painted with raw intimacy. A masked figure, ceremonial and defiant. And a Western woman, faceless in formal white — composure as identity, identity as erasure.

They do not look at each other. They do not belong to one another. And yet, they are suspended together in a field of red ring-like forms — cells, eyes, echoes. Repetition as surveillance. Or survival.

This is not portraiture. It is a reckoning.

Busch quietly interrogates how cultures are remembered — or repackaged. Who is preserved, who is performed, who disappears. Passing Arrivals resists narrative closure. It floats in the in-between — between past and present, seen and silenced, self and other.

A rare and psychologically charged work, this piece offers a deeply personal lens into the artist’s sensitivity to historical weight, aesthetic power, and the quiet tension between reverence and critique.