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I bring you the finest reading material in my weekly Linkfest

Monday is in the rear-view mirror.

What looms in the windshield, oncoming?

My weekly Linkfest, filled with the best possible reading/viewing I could find, just for you!

Take your seat and we’ll begin …

1) 👽 The gorgeous, enigmatic alien tapestries of Karla Knight

Karla Knight is an artist who creates massive wall-hangings covered in symbols that seem suggestively meaningful: They look like icons in an alien language, scrolls that have been pulled from the wreckage of crashed UFOs.

As ArtNews once wrote, while interviewing Knight …

Knight compares her mix of Roman characters and invented signs to automatic writing. ‘People always ask me, is it a code? Is there a key? Are you sending a message? And I always say no.’

She’s got a huge show of her work — “Navigator” — on at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. They’ve got images of her work on their site (more at her personal website too) and a handsome-looking book of the show. I think I’m gonna…