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Blurred photo of a mammogram machine in a beige clinic room, footswitches on the floor Sketchbook 32: pencil studies of heads — a downcast woman at left, and a large anguished bearded face, eyes closed, drawn dark and dense Soft flatbed scan of a Pieris sprig, its white bell-shaped spring blossoms hanging in rows against grey-green Camera-viewfinder framing of a studio wall: a webcam and USB lamp plugged in, small prints taped up, everything dim and greenish Video lecture paused at 14:54 — 'The Nature of Arguments', Critical Reasoning for Beginners, a lecturer beside a slide at the University of Oxford podium A photograph of a printed page with cream-colored paper displaying four centered lines of black text in a simple serif typeface. The text reads: "For the blind man / in the dark room / looking for the black cat / that isn't there." Still from Tarkovsky's Stalker: the Stalker's daughter in a gold headscarf rests her head beside two glasses on a stone table lit by a window Leonardo da Vinci drapery study: brush and grey tempera on linen of heavy cloth over a kneeling figure, the folds modeled in white heightening Girl with long blond hair sitting close to a TV, customizing a cartoon monkey's fur colors in a game menu Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge 3ds Max panel, Editable Mesh with Element selected: 462 faces chosen, Surface Properties open to set the material ID Night desk: laptop and iMac both showing The Path (Ruby leaning in headlights, a striped-sock scene), the logo glowing on a Wacom below, Michael behind the far monitor 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 Sliver of a 3d viewport, three heads at the bottom edge, filename shouting: thatswhatyougetwhenyoumisusewhatiinventyourempirefallsandyouloseeverycent.png Walton Ford's Falling Bough: a massive branch borne aloft by a swarming flock of passenger pigeons, breaking apart against a pale sunset over the river plain Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past Blender wireframe of nested matryoshka dolls, four egg-bodies one inside another in orthographic view Still life of small art objects on grey: a glass egg with suspended yolk, a black bird, an orange yolk, a turquoise egg, a tiny figure and a white bird pull-toy on a string Handwritten score: 'AURIEA, for two pianos' — September 15, 2015, Oostende — playfully, allegretto; 'brush strings gently', 'choose a string, find the note', ending 'fin' three times Sketchbook 42 spread: graphite copy of a muscular bearded figure biting his knuckles, after a Sistine ignudo or slave, above a faint pencil tangle of folded limbs Film still: a small blond child reaches up toward a brown hotel door numbered 404 — page not found Four runway looks with furry animal masks — horned goat and sheep heads over tartan coats and prints Museum conservation room, deep red walls: Memling's singing and music-making angel panels on wheeled easels among examination lamps and tool carts Garden corner with prikneus (rose campion) in bloom — magenta flowers on silvery stems among potted plants Kara Walker's Burn: black paper silhouette of a girl with braids standing in cut flames, a gnarled plume of smoke towering above her The Endless Forest deer with a glowing white skull face and huge branching red antlers like coral fins, standing in fog Ink-wash self-portrait of half of Auriea's face in sepia strokes, one braid falling past her eye, the rest of the sheet left bare Ace of Pentacles tarot card — a hand from a cloud holding a gold pentacle coin over a garden; caption 'Most favorable of all cards' Filmstrip of four grainy webcam frames in sickly greens and reds: a woman at a piano, in a fur collar, resting on an arm, beside flowers Three webcam self-portraits stacked: glowering by a window in a scarf, headphones on looking down, and a close smiling face Sketchbook 38 spread: a great cedar in the botanic garden, dark boughs in ink and wash spreading over water, small figures picnicking beneath Sketchbook 41, page 43: charcoal seascape — two dark headlands flanking open water, a small buoy mid-channel, gulls scratched into a pale sky Journal spread 'BLUTVERGIFTUNG chapter I': the word smeared in rusty red between two collaged kitchen-knife ads pointing at each other Sketchbook 41, page 33: ballpoint family scene — a woman with long dark hair, a toddler seen from behind, and a bearded man in glasses reclining with one socked foot forward Cover of sketchbook 39: half marbled paper veined in red, half grey felt with visible stitching, a pen clipped into the top edge Four Saint John test prints against orange: a white resin figure, black demon legs on a rod above a tiny reclining body, a small black figurine, and a bronze-patina cast John December's 1994 CyberMap Landmarks diagram: the Internet drawn as colored blob territories — Web, Gopher, WAIS, Telnet, FTP, Usenet and Email space — linked by red gateway arrows Sketchbook 39, digital painting: the full moon as a soft smudge of white haloed in violet-black night John Singer Sargent's Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth: the actress in a green beetle-wing gown raising the gold crown over her own head with both arms Blurry conference photo of a speaker beside a slide headed Developers are Pussies, arguing developers misunderstand the business of publishing Gilded thousand-armed statue: a crowned deity with hands joined in prayer, a great fan of golden arms and open palms radiating behind the dark serene face Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' Wireframed hooded girl in the viewport, face smooth inside the mesh hood, red seam lines around the face Black-and-white photo of Frida Kahlo winking, pearl necklace and heavy earrings, a wire crossing in front of her face The Graveyard, wide crop: the old woman with her cane passing the chapel bench, urn-topped monuments pale behind her Mock Atari cartridge label 'Explain Games to a Dead Hare': Joseph Beuys with gold-leafed head cradling the dead hare, 'Use with Joystick Controllers', © 2007 YOU, INC. Sketchbook 45 spread: pencil copy of a church sculpture — a bearded God the Father flying with billowing drapery, arm outstretched — beside studies of trousered legs kneeling on a cushion Vija Celmins's Eggs, 1964: four fried eggs sizzling on a grey double hot plate against a muted blue-grey ground Metope's Navigator tablet: the corner mini-map, the five view-mode buttons, and undo, redo and fit. Tycho Brahe's geoheliocentric diagram: the Moon circles the central Earth while the planets and a comet circle the Sun, in a period engraving

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