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Quote card — Ingres said: 'Drawing is three-fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over the door of my atelier, I would write: School of Drawing... and I'm certain that I would create painters.' Sketchbook 45 spread dated 2013: Martha's head bent over drawing at left in graphite; at center her wavy hair drawn entirely in red pencil; a fainter study with red handprint at right Cover of sketchbook 7 (1990): white spiral book covered in pink lipstick kisses, inked 'Auriea Sketchbook VII — chaos is my life — Pseudo Quasi Real', 20 Aug–26 Sept Till We Have Faces, pages 182 and 183: the god's unmoved voice sends Psyche into exile — you also shall be Psyche — as Orual hears distant weeping 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 Sketchbook 49 spread: studies after Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet at the Gemäldegalerie, and Géricault at Ghent's MSK — severed-head studies, phrenology marbles, and the 'head of a monomaniac' RCA Victor Opera Series cover for Bizet's Carmen: Leontyne Price in large hoop earrings against red, with Franco Corelli, Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic billed Sketchbook 45 spread: sanguine and watercolor study after a baroque abduction scene — bare legs kicking free of red drapery at left, the rest of the group in faint red outline at right Sketchbook 32 spread, Athena 4 Oct 06: the Erechtheion caryatid porch in red ink, a purple caryatid 'cement copy', pencil snakes twisting below — 'growing hair, moving arms, shifting weight' Rough digital sketch: a grinning bat-eared demon figure in a dark coat with a large white 6 painted on its chest, on tan ground Black-and-white snapshot printed upside down: a figure in a striped top stands on a lawn before shrubs, inverted like the tarot Hanged Man The Path: Rose in red-and-black standing in mossy undergrowth, purple forest hung with red lanterns behind her A magenta-lit gallery room, empty except for a black doorway cut into the glowing pink wall A gilded baroque sculptural composition featuring a human skull at its center, flanked by two golden cherub figures and ornate architectural elements including scrolled moldings, set against a black background. The work exemplifies memento mori imagery, combining precious metalwork with skeletal symbolism in an elaborate three-dimensional arrangement. It is also the icon of my MacBookPro. Stage photo from Wim Vandekeybus's In Spite of Wishing and Wanting: bare-chested men in fuchsia skirts, one balancing in a deep arabesque, others crouched and turning Andrew Wyeth's Barracoon: a nude figure lies asleep face down on white bedding against a scumbled umber wall 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' Hospital close-up: a hand taped with gauze, an IV line running red past a gold ring Mark Ryden-style painting in a heavy gilded frame: a big-eyed brown-skinned girl with a white hair bow and lace collar Max patch titled the larynx of frankenstein's monster: dozens of phoneme players wired into a gate, with the creature's demand for a female pasted alongside Sketchbook 31 spread in pencil: a jet seen from above the clouds and a sleeping fellow passenger — 'Slept. Flying out of Charleroi...' In the studio — On Borgo Angelico at 14:09, she found Deep Red—that inward turning, garnet-dark, the colour of old blood pooling in silk. The same head fallen sideways, eyes closed, long white hair streaming — an Ophelia-like sleeping face Sketchbook 22B spread: a pencil drawing of a nude sleeper stretched across both pages amid pink stains — 'never before has reality been so appealing...' Orientalist painting of Salome: a dark-haired woman with hoop earrings and bared breast in a red sash skirt, gripping a brass platter and blade Sketchbook 46 spread of Metropolitan Museum notes: Egyptian scarab rings and a blue-scarab necklace in colored pencil, notes on the Hudson River School, Church's Heart of the Andes and Tiepolo, with Eros, Pothos and Himeros listed Paper background texture shaded all over in soft grey pencil strokes 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 Tiny grainy black-and-white webcam frame of a woman with long dark hair caught mid-motion, dancing in her chair Sketchbook 6 page dated 18 May 1990, 'The Story Link, Act 1 Scene 1': a teenage screenplay outline in colored markers about a killer car, organ donors, and a plot to 'take over the world', interrupted by a commercial announcement Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Blender wireframe view of a cluster of bare trees for The Endless Forest, black lines on grey 3d model of a weathered stone grave cross in an empty grey Blender viewport — a gravestone for The Endless Forest Cover of sketchbook 41: grey-blue board stenciled with curling vines, a moth sealed under a round window, a blue tape stripe and a Belgian lion patch Gallery corner installation of cut paper: red arteries, cream intestines, and green organs cascading down the white walls onto the concrete floor Black-and-white film still: a young woman in a white nightdress pressed against ornately patterned wallpaper, looking back over her shoulder Page 10 of Marguerite Duras' Hiroshima Mon Amour script in English: their talk mingles themselves with Hiroshima, she appears dressed as a Red Cross nurse, and Nevers is highlighted where her past begins Circular fountain basin ringed by thin jets of water catching evening light, dry grasses in the foreground Grid of grainy black-and-white webcam self-portraits: Auriea in a tank top posing and blurring, a raised palm with VSOP written on it, and close-ups of one eye Ana Mendieta's Body Tracks: arms raised high against a pale wall at the start of the drag, blood-dipped, the film grain in rainbow bands Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below Diptych: fingers parting hair to show a small cut on a scalp, beside a close-up of a pink peony — accidents happen Dark 3d bird hunkered in a shallow grass nest, one white eye catching light Labeled photo of First Style wall decoration in the Samnite House, Herculaneum, ca. 100 BC: painted plaster courses marked plinth, socle, orthostats, frieze and cornice Quest3D tutorial titled Multi-texturing the Earth: handwritten arrows explain copying a grass surface to a dirt surface with a black-and-white alpha map Three views of a small polished bronze by Auriea: a crouching Magdalene-like figure with long hair pressing a hand to her head, a skull emerging behind her shoulders Tiny blurred frame of figures dancing in a room washed green and yellow Belgian driving-theory exam sheet from the GOCA centre, 24 September 2012: 'Uitslag Theoretisch Examen — Geslaagd' (passed), receipt stapled below The planet Mercury as a thin grey crescent against black space, its cratered limb lit along the right edge Roadworks warning sign gif: the digging man in a red triangle — u radu je spas, in work is salvation

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