Artforum, December 2004
Best of 2004: Top Ten
By David Rimanelli

7. Rachel Mason, Kissing President Bush
I asked Mason about her larger-than-life plaster sculpture depicting herself and our president sucking face: "What is it about George W. that makes you feel hot?" Mason: "He is a wildly passionate man who consumes my will. My love for him is deep and frightening. The more he hurts me the more I love him. But he's also just so silly and fun-loving and yet he's even God-fearing in the old-fashioned sense. I love how his hair is always slightly tousled and his adorably awkward chuckle when he stammers for wrods. His wild and uncontrollable emotions are so exciting, but it even scares me a little, and you have to admit, he's just so mysterious!"

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