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A black Oxford city bicycle against a wall, the whole photo washed in rainbow gradients from red through magenta to green 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 41 spread: charcoal studies of noses and lips, a seated figure, perspective primitives, a red-draped column, and a blue gouache nude marked 'after Carracci' 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 Tiny game screenshot: a figure standing alone in the middle of a cracked grey road through mottled green-orange terrain Table of the Celtic tree calendar: thirteen months from Birch to Elder or Myrtle, the tree of death, with thorn, heath, poplar, and fir for the seasons Chromed belt buckle of an eagle in flight with blue banners: LIVE to RIDE, RIDE to LIVE Nintendo DS with Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass split across its two screens, the Bride above and the Bachelor Apparatus below Self-portrait reflected in a botanical garden greenhouse pane, camera raised, autumn pines and roses tinted rose-gold through the glass 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 Sketchbook 22B spread: a silvered page with a Handloom Batik Ganesha card taped on, opposite a drawing of a woman in a slip with one blackened arm against blue-patterned shadow Sketchbook 45: tonal pencil drawing of the back of Martha's head, loose blonde hair falling over an embroidered blouse against a dark shaded ground Entropy8Zuper! flag emblem: a black pennant with white 8 and zig glyphs waving inside a red circle on black Sketchbook 47 spread in ballpoint: the sea stacks of Baia delle Sirene rising from calm water, rocky shore in loose outline across the foreground Sketchbook 38 spread: a night-blooming flower in pencil, pale petals reserved against a darkened star-flecked ground Vooruit cinema screen from the balcony: 'Filmfestival Gent & Vooruit presenteren CLINT MANSELL & SONUS QUARTET' Snowflake-filtered webcam pair: Michael and Auriea cheek to cheek, then Auriea laughing with hand to forehead, ring catching the light iTunes playlist of 20 songs — Radiohead's Bullet Proof, Carmen McRae, XTC, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Roisin Murphy's Off On It highlighted Roma sketchbook: brush-pen sketch after Bernini's Rape of Proserpina — her raised arm and turned head, his fingers pressing into her hip 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 41 spread: a wall of ballpoint portraits from a games conference in Montréal, labeled with names — Darren Wershler, Brian Greenspan, Jim Bizzocchi, Nick Montfort, Bernard Perron — and 'I cannot draw Thomas Grip' Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror: a slender standing woman forms the handle, her upraised arms curving into a papyrus support for the broad golden disc Worn black cover of the Caproni Casts catalog — 'Plaster Reproductions of Sculpture for Drawing and Modeling Classes', Caproni Galleries, Boston, price one dollar Standing small before the Pergamon Altar friezes in Berlin, hands at sides, bag dropped on the marble floor, battling gods overhead Soft grayscale painting of a white rabbit at rest with ears raised, glazed like porcelain against a white ground Roma sketchbook: pencil sketch of a roped-off monument, and in purple and brown, a Bernini angel reaching toward a draped reclining figure Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra 'Utopia & Virtual Space': ballpoint portraits of panelists — Margarete Jahrmann, Laura Baigorri Ballarín, Gonzalo Frasca — with notes on ludic society Further along: the Circe master copy after Waterhouse, drapery and throne beasts more resolved Six stacked frames from Strange Days: the 11:59 millennium countdown, balloons and confetti over the crowd, and Angela Bassett with braids inside a car Cover of sketchbook 33: the sleeping face of van Eyck's God the Father from the Ghent Altarpiece turned sideways in its gold inscribed halo, set into pebbled leather and tapestry Till We Have Faces, pages 292 and 293: Orual chews the strange bread of the gods, declares herself Ungit, and despairs that no man will love an ill-favoured woman Sketchbook 42, page 69: small gouache of a nude with a purple headwrap crouching against a dark brown ground, seen from behind, beside faint pencil thumbnails Last.fm top artists grid: Akira Yamaoka on top with 1,685 plays, then Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Bach, Air, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Björk… Black-and-white profile portrait of Louise Bourgeois in old age, eyes closed, holding up her long-fingered hand like a fan before her face Pelt style in miele: hides thrown over the neck struts falling in folds, draped legs below with bare feet emerging under the scalloped hem. Etching, fourth state: a seated nude Magdalene with a skull's face resting her chin on one hand, winged figures swooping toward her over a dark inky floor ZBrush ZSphere reference table: illustrated rows of red-sphere diagrams explaining draw, move, scale, and rotate modes for building armatures Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus Sketchbook 43 dedication, Ghent, 18 March 2012: a night-blue gouache of star wheels over rooftops, facing Lucretius's invocation to life-stirring Venus copied in red-brown ink 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 Book paragraph on Mozart's finances, highlighted pink: 'neither he nor his wife had a good grasp of managing finances… they lurched from crisis to crisis' La Vita Nova render: two glittering point-cloud sculptures face each other from arched niches across a grey, star-flecked mist Sketchbook 44 spread: charcoal studies of a male nude from behind and a thigh, with a handwritten list of the ten sibyls — Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cumaean — and their legends A gray kitten sits bolt upright on the studio's wide plank floor between the piano, its stool, and the open pine door Sketchbook 41 spread: pencil and red ballpoint life-drawing studies of crouching and reclining nudes, with a handwritten list of painters — Morot, Shishkin, Carlsen, Mancini, Prud'hon, Vibert, Bonnat, Ribera Mac folder named Work, 20 items on a dark green desktop: 1am.m4v, Flower/Lock, TEF, TheGraveyard, Fatale, The Path, Vanitas, Sirens, Room 101, Au Tarot and more Belgian identity card in a black wallet — the new Belgian ID — and below, freshly twisted hair seen from above Sketchbook 48 spread: pink-pencil dancer with raised arm over notes on the Musée Carnavalet — 'Paris explained by Parisians, collected by a madman' — and the Musée Cognacq-Jay's Boucher pastels Six red 3d urns and lidded jars in diamond and stripe patterns lined up on a dark shelf — Graveyard props 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

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