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I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest

Tuesday’s over!

Two down, three to go.

Time to relax with …

… the finest reading I could find, just for you, on the endless Plutonian shores of the Internet!

To begin …

1) 🎨The whimsical, symmetrical “Wisdom Engines” of Tanya P. Johnson

I love love love the mixed-media drawings in Tanya P. Johnson’s new series “Wisdom Engines”. As Colossal writes, these artworks …

… invoke passing between wakefulness and sleep or life and death. Mirrored renderings entwine gears, levers, pulleys, and audio equipment with flowers and geometric motifs in elongated columns, referencing the shape of the human spine. The bisected works reflect both a connection between entities and finding balance through somatic experiences and symmetries.

Drawn on vintage ledger paper, the pieces are “tools for consciousness hacking,” Johnson says, instruments for confronting the systems we’re accustomed to. Each work “generates subtle awareness, cultivates wisdom, and wicks fear…