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Back cover of sketchbook 16A: a Daniel Clowes 'PARANOID' comic page varnished in amber, its edges dissolving into dark red drips Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint profile studies — a face with pursed lips filling the left page, overlapping fragments of eyes, noses, lips and small hands on the right Spolia-Style-Smooth-Detail Broken 3d export: a pink low-poly suited figure with an enormous black cylinder skewered diagonally through its head to the floor Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map: the world unfolded onto an icosahedron so the continents lie as one nearly unbroken island in a single ocean Yayoi Kusama's Fireflies on the Water: an infinity mirror room strung with countless golden points of light trailing into black water Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars Near-black photograph of a bearded man's face barely lit from below by a single tealight flame Academic pencil life drawing on cream paper: a nude woman with pinned-up hair seated with legs crossed, gazing off to the left, highlights in white chalk Astrodienst natal chart for Michaël: Cancer sun, Virgo ascendant, blue and green aspect lines crossing the pale wheel Screenshot from Cricoterie, Tale of Tales' Tadeusz Kantor-inspired VR: a horse skeleton puppet, a toppled mannequin and a black figure among doors and a cage on a dark stage Metope's floating thumb dock: a drag grip, the invert, brush-size and brush-height pebbles, and the gold palette disk. Sketchbook 38 spread: the roof view again — a sunset skyline in pink and indigo above, and a brick chimney rising through clouds at right Black-and-white double exposure on 2nd Street: a blurred face streaked with motion in a mirror, plaster wall and shuttered window folding into shadow Black-and-white particle image: an eye-shaped void opening in a field of bright specks, with a 1 cm scale bar and timecode New York Times clipping from 1883 recounting Ingres confronting Delacroix at dinner — 'Drawing, Sir, drawing is honesty! Drawing, Sir, drawing is honor!' — spilling his coffee in his fury Zoe Leonard's typewritten text I want a president, 1992, beginning "I want a dyke for president" and ending on presidents who are always clowns, liars, thieves Chromed belt buckle of an eagle in flight with blue banners: LIVE to RIDE, RIDE to LIVE 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 Spolia-Overhang Textured 3d crow standing on flat chroma green, beak open mid-caw The Rhine from a car window: Cologne Cathedral's twin spires on the skyline, barges below, a hand resting on the sill in shadow Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props 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 Journal spread in black grease crayon: two slashed portrait heads emerging from darkness, a third small face lower left Letter from Stad Gent, 8 December 2008: the nationality declaration accepted — Belgian nationality as of 3 December 2008 Guggenheim Foundation rejection letter, March 9 2007: 'I am sorry to inform you that your application for a Guggenheim Fellowship was not successful' Tiny blurred frame of figures dancing in a room washed green and yellow Sketchbook 47 spread on the 'Rubens in Europe' exhibition: écorché studies, notes on Van Dyck's Charles I and Rubens's Leda and the Swan copy after Michelangelo — 'bursting out of this rectangle, but so still' Sketchbook 49 spread: a red-and-graphite banner-waving nude atop struggling fallen figures, facing a putto's face, a study of a nude's hip and thigh in pink, and a keychain shaped like an 8 A thin strip of printed text reading The labours I endured were Sketchbook 42, page 3: ballpoint interior — a television on a carved dresser, a figure in a patterned robe behind it, and someone sleeping under blankets in the foreground Two dim selfies at Bernini's grave slab in Santa Maria Maggiore — 'Ioannes Laurentius Bernini' carved in the marble behind wide eyes Blurred black-and-white photo of the Penguin Classics Ovid Metamorphoses, its cover Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her fingers bursting into laurel Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies Cover of sketchbook 42: olive-green board embossed with a crackle pattern, a strip of yellowed cloth tape along the stitched spine and a bent wire clip at top An old engraving of two figures embracing beneath a rocky overhang, overpainted with ranks of falling black teardrops that spill past its margins Three tiny black bird silhouettes flying across a long white banner Spolia-Style-Cloth-Detail Poliriea: ZBrush render of a mauve cyclops head with tight sculpted curls and one teal eye, resting atop a striped ziggurat pedestal Sketchbook 38 spread in watercolor: magenta coneflowers with drooping petals at left, a bank of pink valerian against dark hedge at right Sketchbook 49 spread: ballpoint portraits of long-haired conference-goers, a face with heavy eyes, and notes — 'board games as narrative devices', 'dice as the devil's bones', 'gamification is where capitalism wants to go' Sketchbook 40, 'Going Forth By Day': Gent to Venice by train — a blue-inked station kiosk, and sleeping passengers in faint pencil — 'every now and then it lets out a high pitched scream' Sketchbook 38 spread: rooftops in watercolor — a mottled brick gable at left, storm clouds and a dark slate roof-line against blue at right Listening party — On Viale della Trinità dei Monti at dusk, she gathered the palazzo's held warmth—travertine walls yielding their pale grayish browns, the yellowish grays of weathered stone like old parchment. Anatomical fantasy drawing: skeleton of a crouched werewolf-like creature, skull snarling, drawn inside its transparent body outline Metope's Face Sets tablet: the paint-regions switch, the list of sets with their colours, stone dropdowns and lock/hide flags, and the region tools — rect, circle, flood fill, smooth edges, fill with material or texture, and extrude set. Black silhouette of a woman drifting mid-turn against a grey gradient, a faint reflection under her feet Portable studio on a desk: black felt pencil roll, tiny travel watercolor set with stained mixing lids, sketchbook, tea mug and laptop Painted 3d head in profile looking up, sinewy yellowed skin like carved bone, grey ground

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