Wild Sown<p>Life imitates art imitates life:</p><p>Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artgallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artgallery</span></a>. Then the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationalguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalguard</span></a> arrived. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NadyaTolokonnikova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NadyaTolokonnikova</span></a> tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policestate</span></a> exhibition was shut down – by the police state... [She] was sitting in a replica Russian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prisoncell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisoncell</span></a> in downtown <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LosAngeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngeles</span></a> when the police started shutting down the streets around the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> museum.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pussyriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pussyriot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/irony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artimitateslife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artimitateslife</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/artanddesign/2</span><span class="invisible">025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state</span></a></p>