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For the uninitiated, the Spankers’ Drawings Gallery exists in a liminal pocket of the city—partway between a Victorian conservatory and a defunct server farm. Its current exhibition, numbered 153–23 (the “23” denotes the twenty-third iteration of their “Persistence of Discipline” cycle), features the enigmatic patron and frequent subject Droo-Cynthia. I attended a private viewing. I left with more questions than answers, and a peculiar urge to sit on a pillow. Droo-cynthia-visits-the-spankers-drawings-gallery-153-23

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GALLERY QUARTER, THE UNDERMIND — The invitation arrived not on paper, nor vellum, nor screen, but as a slight, warm sting on the back of the left thigh. That is how one knows: The Spankers have noticed you. I left with more questions than answers, and