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1479 pieces, shuffled — reshuffle

Black-and-white sign in Disney-style lettering: 'ALL SHE SAID WAS — HORRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN' Sketchbook 44 page: ballpoint masked figures in hooded robes labeled Beauty, Wit, Virtue and Grace — 'the fairies are not your friends, they are old magic' — with a crowned tragic mask at center Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a bedside lamp with an orange shade glowing yellow underneath, on a brushy brown ground Susan Harbage Page's Palimpsest: black-and-white photograph of a nude torso covered in dark tally marks scored across the skin Sketchbook 46 spread: flowers in black ballpoint on the tan page — an open peony, a bud, a dark rose — continuing onto blue-white paper as chrysanthemums tinted violet, orange and a pink rose in colored pencil Sketchbook 32 spread: a copy of Rodin's Le Sommeil in red wash and pencil, the sleeping head dissolving into loose coiling lines — 'Le Sommeil, Monsieur Rodin' Mark Ryden-style painting in a heavy gilded frame: a big-eyed brown-skinned girl with a white hair bow and lace collar Annotated guide to the Japanese social network mixi: orange navigation bars broken down row by row into kanji, kana, and English definitions Painting of a grim place setting: a small head surfacing from a plate of dark soup, spoon, napkin, and a glass of pale wine on white linen Sketchbook page filled with dense spiral scribble columns, a small eye and profile drawn below, Japanese writing in the margin Diary page in green ink, Thursday August 27: 'computers take too long and I am sick of being enslaved… no more writing on machines… I love the paper, just feeling the pen on the paper' Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Graphite study of a marble torso's thighs, a carved hand gathering the robe aside at the waist, with a smaller drapery sketch alongside ZBrush sculpt in progress, close up: a dark-skinned female head tilted back, polygroup seams still visible across the cheek and brow, hair bound at the nape Master copy in progress of Waterhouse's Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses — Circe enthroned before the round mirror, cup and wand raised Three webcam self-portraits stacked: glowering by a window in a scarf, headphones on looking down, and a close smiling face 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 Sketchbook 50 spread of dark thumbnail copies at the Mauritshuis, Den Haag: Rubens's Assumption sketch, Rembrandt's Andromeda, Vermeer's Diana and her Nymphs, Tityus and Sisyphus, and Rembrandt's Two Moors Small grainy GIF of Mr. T in his layered gold chains and mohawk Endless Forest deer wearing the sugar-skull mask, black-bodied with glowing green skeleton markings, walking a sunlit clearing Sketchbook 40, IGS Cologne, Aug 15: pencil portraits of the indie games scene — Brandon Boyer, Michaël Samyn, Douglas Wilson — around the panel title 'Beyond Fun' Cover of sketchbook 47: a graphite study of the Farnese Hercules from behind set into the gilt-framed panel of a worn red book cover Journal spread in black grease crayon: two slashed portrait heads emerging from darkness, a third small face lower left Sketchbook spread in ballpoint: gothic spires and hanging chandelier-like forms of Riverside Church, drawn dense and scratchy across both pages Sketchbook 47 spread: Tivoli notes on Villa d'Este's Hercules frescoes, and a watercolor of the artist's bare feet propped against the blue Bay of Naples with Vesuvius and Capri beyond — Sorrento and Pompeii notes around it Kiki Smith's Lilith: a black bronze woman cast from life, crouching upside down high on the gallery wall, glass eyes looking back over her shoulder Journal spread 'BLUTVERGIFTUNG chapter I': the word smeared in rusty red between two collaged kitchen-knife ads pointing at each other Comic panels of Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman: the pale girl in black, ankh at her throat, moving through a crowded street Back cover of sketchbook 26: waxed book pages printed with dark palm fronds and crosshatched shadows, amber and sepia Labeled cutaway diagram of the Teller-Ulam two-stage thermonuclear design: primary with plutonium pit beside the cylindrical secondary in its radiation case Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges in her dark marble altar niche at the Church of Our Lady, flanked by saints, candles, roses and pink blossom branches Grainy video still: a figure in a homemade paper dress printed with the two towers of the World Trade Center Five 3D-printed heads of the same downcast face lined up in filament shades from ivory to dark brown, print scraps, a bronze arm and figurines scattered behind Example #22 installation: the Minories vitrine on its tall stand behind the flat Magdalene case holding open sketchbooks, tablets and small dark figures Blurry snapshot in a pink tank top printed with a roaring purple monster, mid-gesture DVD cover of Antonioni's Blow-Up: on hot orange, a photographer kneels over a woman on the ground, camera raised Glitched Netscape window on entropy8.com: a black-and-white close-up of a woman's face shredded by horizontal bands of corruption Live 3D scan of someone sprawled on the couch, rendered as white sculptural relief — 59fps, 1.93 million points and counting Sketchbook 32, page 11: three painted severed heads — a red-bearded head lifted by the hair from a white basin (#032), a grey figure, and a red-lined sleeping face (#006) 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!' Museum conservation room, deep red walls: Memling's singing and music-making angel panels on wheeled easels among examination lamps and tool carts First page of Robert Graves's I, Claudius: Claudius introduces himself and his nicknames — the Idiot, the Stammerer, Clau-Clau-Claudius — under a Greek key ornament Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right Spread from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, pages 4 and 5: what difference did Stesichoros make — adjectives as the latches of being, and red Geryon of Erytheia QR code for the ProjectProject work Sketch for a Cyclops Blue pencil sketch of a Louvre marine centaur group: a bearded triton reclining on a coiling fish tail, a slender youth seated against his back The Archive to Come in Mozilla Hubs: floating screens under the heading History, Conflict, Social Justice, one labeled Auriea Harvey, on blue virtual ground 19th-century anatomical plate: dissected shoulder and arm of a bowed figure, muscles and arteries hand-colored, with key text above Three Jandek-style CD-Rs on a desk: 'Magick for Cherishings' and 'Magick for Prudence' with pressed-flower covers, one disc hand-labeled 'NOT SURE IF I SENT THIS TO YOU ALREADY!' Dancing drawing: a sweeping charcoal-and-pencil arc curving up the page from a dense black smudge, looping scribbles at its base

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