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Cover of sketchbook 48: an old ledger bound in red leather and swirled brown marbled paper, scuffed white at the edges Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' Christmas Eve double exposure: family unwrapping presents by the fireplace, a woman on the hearth, children over a big box, torn red paper on the floor Salvador Dalí's 'Ten rules for him who wishes to be a painter', from rule 1 on making gold come out of your brush to rule 10: 'If painting doesn't love you, all your love for her will be unavailing' The Path teaser in four stills: sunlit forest, a dark house — 'IN THIS FOREST / STANDS A HOUSE / THAT REMEMBERS / IT KNOWS' QuickTime windows of dance-studio clips: a dancer improvising alone on a black floor marked with tape, seen from the corner — Drama Princess motion reference Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates: the philosopher reaches for the hemlock cup while pointing skyward, his grieving students around the prison bed Page 12 of Hiroshima Mon Amour: in the café she tells why she went mad in Nevers — her head shaved in 1944 for loving a German soldier — every mention of Nevers highlighted Photograph of the back of a neck and shoulders tattooed with the single lowercase word life, ending in a period Sketchbook 38 spread in pencil: a glass of tea, its bag slumped beside it on a crumpled napkin — 'tea, Ronse(?)' Forensic facial reconstruction of Nicolaus Copernicus as an old man with white hair and a fur-collared red robe, made by the Polish police central crime laboratory Thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field, like a tangle of dropped wire Installation photograph: red violins with their bows mounted swarming up white walls and across a tiled floor, like an infestation of insects Indianapolis diptych: pastel wooden houses under a winter sky, and a corner-store cooler with a hand-drawn sign 'ALL CAN POP'S 5 for 1.00 — NO SINGLE!' Folder of seven Hiroshi Sugimoto Seascapes thumbnails — Aegean Sea, Baltic Sea, Bodensee, Lake Superior, North Atlantic, Sea of Japan, Tyrrhenian — each a bare grey horizon of sea and sky Phone raised in the Gesù in Rome, dwarfed by Baciccio's Triumph of the Name of Jesus boiling out of its gilded frame overhead Scanned book page on the twelvefold chain of dependent origination from Udana I: ignorance conditioning all links through old age, death, and suffering Sketchbook 48 spread dated Dec 12 at the Petit Palais: graphite nude after Jordaens's wife from behind, notes on 'Jordaens et le réalisme flamand', Carpeaux's Three Graces and Daumier Tarot app spread on a wood table: The Hermit, King of Cups, Page of Wands reversed, Ace of Pentacles, The Devil below; to the right The World, The Empress and Hierophant reversed Small grainy black-and-white photo of Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley posed against a dark wall QuickTime window playing Parajanov's Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (winter birches) over an engraved anatomical plate of dissected legs Sketchbook 49 spread: a single faint gesture drawing of curling, flame-like figures rising up the page fold, the rest of the spread blank Correggio's Jupiter and Io: the nude nymph swoons in the embrace of the god, who dissolves into a smoky grey cloud with a barely visible kissing face Valentine's mail from Marian Bantjes: hand-calligraphed envelope from Bowen Island, a violet sheet dense with swirling script, Canada stamp Body scan, 2004: a low stapled abdominal incision in warm dim light, a white dressing pulled aside at the right Scan of a single leaf gilded entirely in tarnished silver, its serrated edge and stem intact against black Smooth grey profile of the same girl's head, lips parted slightly, ponytail falling behind the ear Sketchbook 49 spread of cast-hall studies: headless antique torsos, a winged Cupid stringing his bow, a standing putto seen in profile, and a muscular breastplate torso Till We Have Faces, pages 292 and 293: Orual chews the strange bread of the gods, declares herself Ungit, and despairs that no man will love an ill-favoured woman To-do list detail: 'Decisions on what objects are found in the forest', 'watch the zbrush3 dvd', 'DONT MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF' in small caps Lecture slide from The Endless Forest: sunbeams falling into a clearing where a white stag stands at a small ruin Sketchbook 44 spread, 2 October 2012, Boeing 747 to Las Vegas: red ballpoint sleeping passengers under a painted blanket, with a swatched palette of 'colors for a trip to California' Sketchbook 44 spread labeled 'Murillo': blue and graphite studies of standing nudes and women with 1960s bouffant hair, one gaunt figure gazing down at right — noted 'Battle of the Frigids, Slovenia' Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Spacecraft photograph of Jupiter's moon Io half in shadow, a volcanic plume erupting in a bright arc off its upper limb Sketchbook 49 spread in red pencil: a nude curled on a block seat pressing both hands to her face, hair spilling over her fingers, with a faint rubbed-out figure on the facing page Sketchbook 22B spread: photos of a sculpted head-jar and a brooch-studded form on scorched paper, opposite a mirrored double self-portrait photo above silver foil — 'I give you 1995 of my 23rd year' EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Inverted-color render: a bob-haired girl in negative, face patched black and white like a skull, one red shoulder Sketchbook 41 café spread: ballpoint sketches of a coffee cup, kettle, and a long-haired bearded man, with conference notes on Silent Hill 3, spatiality, the uncanny, and games as creative writing tools Three chalk studies on green-grey paper of a marble figure's crossed legs under gathered drapery, from full shading to bare outline Tiny animated gif of a figure rising from a small fire against black Anne Carson, 'Could I': 'If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that… The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.' Sketchbook 46: watercolor self-portrait in a grey tank top cradling a skull, with a note wondering whether to stop this book early before the vacation Film still: a small blond child reaches up toward a brown hotel door numbered 404 — page not found Sepia self-portrait, head bowed before a window: sunlight flares over the top of the head, dreadlocks hanging, apartment block beyond groworld research pair: a notebook drawing of an underground city with pheromone paths, and a photo of a pensive face, chin in hand — 'minimise borders and maximise edges' Ace of Pentacles tarot card — a hand from a cloud holding a gold pentacle coin over a garden; caption 'Most favorable of all cards' small animation of the Prophet Ezekiel from my video in this room is a sculpture called PROPHECY. a man with a swirling cloud around his head stumbles around then focuses.

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