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Shoulder tattoo in progress: green Japanese waves curling around dark smoke-grey clouds, two red petals falling, partly outlined panels near the shoulder blade Diagram of the Julio-Claudian family tree, tracing marriages and adoptions from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero Sketchbook 46: soft pencil drawing of a crowned Madonna statue with hands pressed in prayer, ringed by a halo of roses Sketchbook 25 spread of watercolors: a faint green figure bleeding through above, and below, a blond man in black standing in a Maine yard by a shed — the only known drawing of Rick Digital figure study of a thin androgynous figure in profile, eyes closed, sketched in pale flesh tones on brown with white scribbled ground A German Enigma cipher machine open in its wooden case: lamp board, keyboard, plugboard, and the instruction plate Zur Beachtung in the lid Sketchbook 47: watercolor of Vesuvius smoking above a band of blue sea, with Ovid's Fasti IV quoted below — the prayer of Romulus for Rome, written within sight of Vesuvio, 2 Aug 2013 Journal spread: blue ballpoint knee studies wrapped in cursive about attraction and illness, skeleton torsos and shoe sketches, 'It's a perfect day for letting go' — 3 June 92 Quest3D tutorial titled Multi-texturing the Earth: handwritten arrows explain copying a grass surface to a dirt surface with a black-and-white alpha map Woodblock-printed Chinese book page presenting the ʼPhags-pa script: columns of angular Mongol square letters glossed with Chinese characters Portable studio on a desk: black felt pencil roll, tiny travel watercolor set with stained mixing lids, sketchbook, tea mug and laptop Logo of the word mirror drawn in thin white rounded strokes on black, the letterforms mirrored so the word reads the same reflected The same vessel after growing supports: branching oak-coloured struts descend from the rim and from the base ring, merging into a few thicker legs that meet the build plate. The Endless Forest deer with a glowing white skull face and huge branching red antlers like coral fins, standing in fog A Gemini year-ahead horoscope: 'a big change is in the works… everything you've been thinking of changing will be greenlit, light by light, and in time.' Roma sketchbook: study of Daphne's hands sprouting laurel leaves at her fingertips, drawn in ink across the spread Instagram story from earlymusicinstruments: the pegbox of a viola da gamba in progress, its scroll crowned by a small sculpted head in a cap Penguin cover of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice: a kneeling woman in an open kimono between a samurai helmet and orchids with skull-faced blooms 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 Three stems of yellow loosestrife (wederik) with whorled yellow flowers against a peeling white wall, beside a metal drainpipe Sketchbook 49 spread: a single faint gesture drawing of curling, flame-like figures rising up the page fold, the rest of the spread blank Roma sketchbook: the baldachin's twisted columns brushed in heavy black ink beside writing — 'There is a certain perversity to St Peters... The angel stabs you in your own true heart' Notebook page headed 7 kings, 7 hills, Feb 20 2011: numbered lists of Rome's seven hills and seven kings from Romulus to Tarquinius Superbus, with a sketched map Two stacked book spines misread as one phrase: gold-stamped HISTORY above a red cloth spine reading THE CHALLENGE OF Dutch growth chart of pale blue body silhouettes from two-month foetus to 25-year-old adult, heads aligned along red horizontal lines A dead twig with curled brown leaves on a grey ground, two leaves lettered in white paint to spell perfekt Purple passion velvet plant, its fuzzy deep-purple serrated leaves overflowing a pale lilac pot Two-page spread from One Hundred Years of Solitude in which José Arcadio Buendía insists the day is still Monday, the time machine broken Corner of a Mac desktop: film thumbnails and a '1001 More in Finder' badge over a photo of a sleeping woman curled on patterned sheets A small white bunny with grey ears and nose sitting in a white bathtub, looking up with one dark red eye Back cover of Huysmans' Against Nature (Oxford, tr. Mauldon): 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year — but I don't care a damn!' Still from Islanders: colossal weathered faces dissolving into swarms of paper-like shards, drifting in blue sky above a hazy planetary horizon, the sun flaring through one eye The Fountain of Life detail from the Ghent Altarpiece — angels kneeling on starry grass around the slender bronze fountain — framed with a plaque reading 'Auriea 2012', a gift from Hasan Niyazi Sketchbook 46 frontispiece on orange paper: A. E. Stallings's poem 'The Island of Skyros' copied out under a painted title, with a ballpoint still life in the corner — Ghent, NYC, Indianapolis, Belgrade, March–August 2013 Black-and-white café table: a Früh Kölsch bottle and two tall glasses, one full, one nearly empty Dense journal spread: an inked self-portrait beside a collaged red planet, columns of handwriting, and a blue profile facing a ghostly face — 'READ IT AND COMMIT ME' Sketchbook 41 opening spread on grey paper: attempts at painting the moon in gouache — 'clouds hiding her face' — waves in white ink, and a figure in a red-pink cloak on a dark thorned hill Cover of sketchbook 16B: raw grey board with a pasted three-panel comic strip — a woman's face, a burst of static, dark tentacles — captioned '...my wound healed, and I continued my journey' Book plate of Géricault's Left Hand, 1823: the artist's own hand drawn in black, red and yellow chalk, splayed and shadowed as if cast off, now in the Louvre Webcam shot of a studio wall: swirling green painting, postcards, small mirrors, a Motions box and a Michelangelo's David sculpture book Keith Arnatt-style photograph: a dense white cloud of smoke hanging between green trees in a summer forest Ingres's Odalisque in Grisaille: the Grande Odalisque reclining nude among grey silks, painted entirely in tones of grey, looking back over her shoulder Grainy black-and-white video still from Rosas' Elena's Aria: two women seated on wooden chairs against a bare wall, one crossing her legs, one clutching her shoulder Cover of sketchbook 27: a cream string-tie envelope with red button closures, bordered in blue-and-orange Japanese fan paper, a faint face sketched at top The Voyager Golden Record: etched playback instructions, a pulsar map, and the hydrogen atom diagram on the gold-plated disc EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Still-life twice: a paper napkin folded into a stemmed glass with a sip of port, in black-and-white and in color against cardboard iTunes playlist of 20 songs — Radiohead's Bullet Proof, Carmen McRae, XTC, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Roisin Murphy's Off On It highlighted Yellowed Japanese newspaper clipping reviewing Boris Vian — a column by Sone Motokichi on the intellectual 'spitting on graves' poet-provocateur 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

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