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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 Sketchbook 38 fold-out in pencil: a Ryanair seatback tray, the wing over a coastline near Bologna, and a neighbor thumbing a phone — 'airplane to Bologna' Browser play-through of Scott Adams's text adventure The Count: green terminal text in a flower box outside an open window, tying sheets and eating daisies An enormous pale pink peony bloom overwhelming its blue vase on a red table, an orchid pot beside it John William Waterhouse's Consulting the Oracle: a priestess by lamplight speaks to a semicircle of veiled women leaning in around a marble floor J.W. Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa (1892): the jealous sorceress in a dark peacock gown stands on the water, pouring luminous green poison from a wide bowl Sketchbook 49 page in sanguine: a nude pulling drapery from her shoulders with arm raised over her head, a lighter blocked-in figure beside her Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror: a slender standing woman forms the handle, her upraised arms curving into a papyrus support for the broad golden disc Animation frame of Captain Kirk from the Star Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren, source of his kiss with Uhura A German Enigma cipher machine open in its wooden case: lamp board, keyboard, plugboard, and the instruction plate Zur Beachtung in the lid The same support forest assigned the bronze material instead of oak, so the struts read as cast metal against a marble body. Sketchbook 48 atelier spread 'Studio Escalier + Florentine Renaissance': two curving figure studies wrapped in notes on disegno, CHARIS (gift, elegance, love), Degas and 'the fury of the figure' Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent seen from the belfry: the great Gothic west tower rising over the city's rooftops under a white sky Cover of sketchbook 9: pink-washed board stamped 'ENCLOSED' in red, scratched with a circled monogram and penciled 'retro-sketch #IX Auriea L. Harvey — PROFOUND IDEAS' Sketchbook 22B spread: photos of a sculpted head-jar and a brooch-studded form on scorched paper, opposite a mirrored double self-portrait photo above silver foil — 'I give you 1995 of my 23rd year' Sketchbook 49 spread: gestural line studies of tumbling bronze figures, with notes on Veronese's Hercules at the Crossroads and a seven-headed French Hercules-and-Hydra bronze Tall blurry photo: a bundled figure standing tiny at the foot of an enormous carved wooden church door Sketchbook 32: Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons sketched from the back in sanguine wash, the huddled figures knotted together Sketchbook spread: at left a dark X-ray-like film scratched with 'I TALK IN MY SLEEP ALL MY LIFE', at right black figures and circles slashed over red paint 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' Last.fm top artists grid: Akira Yamaoka on top with 1,685 plays, then Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Bach, Air, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Björk… Sformo-Analysis Grey placeholder card reading 'THERE IS NO BOOK 14' in serif capitals Soft flatbed scan of a Pieris sprig, its white bell-shaped spring blossoms hanging in rows against grey-green 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' Blurred black-and-white photo of the Penguin Classics Ovid Metamorphoses, its cover Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her fingers bursting into laurel Untextured brown 3d man in a hooded jacket standing at rest in the Blender viewport — 144 character work Closed exterior shutters of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights: the third day of Creation painted in green-grey grisaille, the new earth inside a transparent sphere Sketchbook 42, page 66: watercolor and pencil of a sleeper's face resting on a yellow-washed arm, the head faint graphite, the raised forearm a wedge of gold Example #22 installation: the Minories vitrine on its tall stand behind the flat Magdalene case holding open sketchbooks, tablets and small dark figures Sketchbook 49 spread at the Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki: ink sketch of a St Anne 'protects against plague' painting holding Maria and Jesu, a light tangle of figures, and a shaded reaching hand ZBrush fragment for the Magdalene: a single bent arm rising from the elbow, its hand gripping a skull whose jaw dissolves into the fingers 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' Kara Walker's Burn: black paper silhouette of a girl with braids standing in cut flames, a gnarled plume of smoke towering above her Cover of sketchbook 45: a small oil painting glued to the black cloth board — two extracted molar teeth painted thickly in ivory against a deep teal ground A woman wearing the exoskeletal Gypsy motion-capture suit, black straps and sensors down her limbs, cables trailing across the floor toward a mirror Ornate gallery with The Graveyard(?) on a flatscreen — a blue underwater scene — a woman mugging wildly for the camera while a man gazes up Abyssinian kitten enthroned on an iPad on a red cushion, huge ears up, beside a taped-up STAN theater poster Dancing drawing in black ink: splattered vertical strokes and a long arc of dots crossing over a broad smeared wash near the bottom of the sheet 19th-century anatomical plate: dissected shoulder and arm of a bowed figure, muscles and arteries hand-colored, with key text above Close-up of a Path girl's face bottom half: sallow skin, wide dark hollow eyes, flat lips, red hair edges at the ears White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Sketchbook 48 spread in graphite: self-portrait with full hair and hand at chest, legs in patterned tights on heeled sandals, a coffee mug, and tiny thumbnails noting 'The Moon' and a black dog Sketchbook 46 spread titled 'The Audience': overlapping colored-pencil studies of a group of nudes in graphite, brown and wine red — standing, crouching and turning as if watching something Back cover of sketchbook 22B: half faded red cloth, half a smoky photographic print of gnarled tree branches Work-in-progress collage of Object 02: photogrammetry scans of a seated woman clutching a skull, from broken raw meshes to a resculpted red clay figure signed AU Raphael's black-chalk study of an upturned female head beside a pencil sketchbook page of an older man in a tank top with studies of mouths and noses Book spread of Kafka's short prose piece The Sudden Walk, its single long sentence about abruptly leaving the house at night filling the left page Sketchbook 46: graphite study on orange paper of a marble male torso from behind, headless and armless on its museum mount Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a headless pair of legs and buttocks in flesh tones striding out of a deep violet ground

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