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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. Spiral notebook page dated 10/1/87 written entirely in an invented cipher of hearts, triangles, and squiggles, one line ending in a burst of exclamation marks Medical diagram of suturing techniques: over-and-over, mattress, subcuticular, Lembert, Cushing, Halsted, Connell, and purse-string stitches Handmade drawing tools made by Henrik Drescher's students laid out on white: spoons, sticks, sponge-tipped rods, taped filmstrip, feathers and bound rag brushes Hospital close-up: a hand taped with gauze, an IV line running red past a gold ring Full page of the EINLEITUNG self-portrait: inked head over German book text, halo scratched in pencil, flames and torn dialogue scraps rising across a sky-blue chest Hokusai's shunga print The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife: a woman reclining among rocks in the embrace of two octopuses, calligraphy filling the sky Peter Verhelst theatre tableau: performers sprawled sleeping in a heap among foam animal sculptures — deer, swans, pelicans — in fringed costumes Graphite study of the Borghese Gladiator's lunging leg and arm, annotated 'energy curve is inscribed on the body' Sketchbook 48 spread in pink and sanguine pencil: two soft studies of portrait busts in the Louvre's shadows, notes on Marie Antoinette-era hand fans — 'it's easier to draw what you can touch' Sketchbook 46 spread, Easter 2013: a smoky charcoal portrait of a long-haired girl doubled across both pages, with planetary notes — Mars blood and bone, Saturn teeth, Mercury brain — for a game about the body Diagram of the Hebrew letter aleph in thick black calligraphy, its strokes numbered 1 through 10 with pointer lines MinoRinth simulation frame: seen from high above, the tiny yellow labyrinth disc and point-cloud tree glow at the bottom of a muted green chasm Two renders on hot pink: a flat grey slab with two black pegs, then the slab split open showing a black gap — Halloween minimalism Two life-size gilded skeleton sculptures hold an oval mirror in a dark shop window; the photographer stands reflected between them, all in black 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 Sketchbook 44 spread, 3 September, model session: soft pencil sketches of the same nude bending, kneeling and seen from the back, poses overlapping across the gutter Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint plane trees and a mossy fountain, with scribbled motion studies of dancers noted from Les Ballets C de la B's 'Oude King' — 'human range of motion', 'over pain madness' 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 Black silhouette of a woman drifting mid-turn against a grey gradient, a faint reflection under her feet Sketchbook ballpoint portrait of a laughing boy in an open jacket, eyes squeezed shut, a flame-like doodle rising beside his shoulder Daniel Lefcourt's The Invention of Public Relations: gold-painted nuggets, a slide projector and carousel, rulers, gloves, and archive photos knolled on grey Book page from Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: an interview in which Li describes the old profession of walking a corpse home in pairs, chanting 'Ya, ho, ya, ho' Twitter exchange: Auriea shares Monteverdi's First Book of Madrigals; Hasan Niyazi replies 'as if 1587 taps us on the shoulder and says remember — blessings' Live Click Test3 Cover of sketchbook 29: a painted collaged face on black — cropped bands of eyes, nose and grinning teeth assembled into a mask Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome Spolia-Overhang Studio corner crowded with wood frames holding small game-screenshot prints, art postcards pinned above a green cutting mat 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 Mag's first form: a reclining figure fresh off the SLA printer in deep purple, still on its lattice of supports, a smaller twin beside it among bronze and stone kin Three views of a 3d scan of an Artemis statue in short belted chiton and hunting boots, rendered in a blue and bronze matcap against black Roma sketchbook: a pencil reclining nude, Ovid's Latin on Daphne's transformation lettered around it, and an inked mustached portrait — 'is it possible that in Roma there can be no fantasy?' Roma sketchbook: watercolor along the Tiber in greens, and below, the column of Romulus and Remus drawn sideways amid writing about finding Bernini's tomb Mac desktop tiled with video-chat screenshots — a classroom of students on the far end, the two callers picture-in-picture in each window Instagram post by earlymusicinstruments captioned Nearly there, tagging auriea.art: a viola da gamba on the workshop wall, dark body, pale unvarnished neck, carved head atop the pegbox Playlist mixing Stanley Lieber's GOKU tracks with Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I–IV and FLAMES.GIF songs Still from Silent Hill 2: Maria leans close behind the cell bars, subtitle reading See? I'm real. Raw photogrammetry scan for The Flower Seller: a grey ragged-edged bust with a blurred face, an armful of thick-petaled blooms dissolving into scan debris E-book page with a note reading What I strive for when I write, pinned to Bloy's description of Huysmans dragging the Mother Image down the staircase of terrified Syntax Cover of sketchbook 5 (1996): black spiral book chalked 'Pseudo Quasi Real — Auriea Sketchbook V' with a starburst doodle around a small photo of a torso Sketch of a sphere labeled Classical Model, annotated with incidence of cool reflection, cool turning, neutral shadow, and warm light mass 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." Sunlit self-portrait looking sideways, long dreadlocks over a black top, a red anatomical-heart pendant on a red cord Text excerpt from James Baldwin: '...It was really a matter between me and God. I told him quite a long, long time ago there would be two of us at the Mercy Seat. He would not be asking all the questions.' Live 3D scan of someone sprawled on the couch, rendered as white sculptural relief — 59fps, 1.93 million points and counting 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 'Enter Code' screen refusing a gift card: 'This code is only valid for customers of the United States store' Card of brief forms of Gregg shorthand in alphabetical order, 1963: a ruled grid of curling pen strokes, a McKay's price sticker in the corner Self-portrait against a projection: standing in a black feathered coat, eyes down, while blossoms and branches wash over the wall and face

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