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Bernini's chalk study personifying St Peter's: a standing figure whose outstretched arms become the colonnades embracing the piazza Two Blender views of grandmother's house: the dark cutaway interior with staircase and lamp gizmos, and the whole cottage on shocking magenta terrain Sketchbook 44 spread, 27 December 2012: colored-pencil studies of bare feet, a potted seedling and a small tree, beside dense game-design notes on ditching the open world and unrolling the world in chapters Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her To-do list detail: 'Decisions on what objects are found in the forest', 'watch the zbrush3 dvd', 'DONT MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF' in small caps Salvador Dalí's 'Ten rules for him who wishes to be a painter', from rule 1 on making gold come out of your brush to rule 10: 'If painting doesn't love you, all your love for her will be unavailing' Tale of Tales lettered on a banner amid extravagant Spencerian pen flourishes that swirl into a long-tailed bird, in black ink on cream Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint figures on tan paper — a dark-haired woman embracing a bald figure from behind at left, faces and a clasped arm layered over blue washes at right Sformo-Seam-Keys Five penitent Magdalene paintings side by side, including Georges de La Tour's candlelit versions, each with long hair, a skull, and upturned eyes Despair.com demotivational poster, Procrastination: a figure gazes over a sea of clouds — laziness always pays off now The Voyager Golden Record: etched playback instructions, a pulsar map, and the hydrogen atom diagram on the gold-plated disc 3D-scanned portrait of the artists mother in blue-white on black: head wrapped in a scarf, face in profile, the shoulders dissolving into torn point-cloud lace Page from the Codex Seraphinianus: two halves of a hollow deer joined by red threads, a tiny figure dangling between them, with asemic script Browser screenshot of a2p.bitmark.com, Artworks I own: an edition grid with works by Warburton, Sougwen Chung, Petra Cortright, LIA, Lieberman, Shu Lea Cheang, Pipkin, and Auriea's Sketch for a Cyclops Sketchbook 32, page 34: pencil study of Rodin's Old Courtesan ('She Who Was Once the Helmet Maker's Beautiful Wife'), her bowed bony body in profile Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in close-up under the brim of his fedora, face smudged with dirt, smiling sidelong Windows taskbar: Photoshop, paint, shortcut to blender, Blender, Quest3D all open at 10:45 Eight-song playlist starting with Final Fantasy's None Of You Will Ever See A Penny, five stars, then Deerhunter, Boduf Songs, Fridge, Beck, Cranes Sketchbook 44, drawn over the printed page 'Chapitre Premier' of Feu et Flamme: a faint pencil portrait of a girl with tousled hair, one eye darkly shaded Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petals Four Magdalenes in ecstasy side by side: Artemisia Gentileschi's slumped Magdalene, Caravaggio's Magdalen in Ecstasy, an angel visiting the long-haired saint, and a polychrome sculpture detail Silent Hill 2 twice: Maria lying dead on the green diner floor, and James reading 'There was a HOLE here. It's gone now.' on a newspapered wall Cover of 'Boris Vian de A à Z', Obliques No. 8–9: the title in bold purple cut-out letters over diagonal yellow and magenta stripes Four loose cards from sketchbook 47: a candlestick still life, the Farnese Hercules from behind, an ecstatic upturned face with raised arm, and a light gestural nude stepping forward Astrodienst natal chart for Riea: Gemini sun, Libra ascendant, the aspect lines webbing red and blue across the wheel Sketchbook 48 spread: notes on Bernini and Poussin at a dinner party, Michelle's advice on chalk drawing, Subleyras and the 1740s turn to Neoclassicism — 'David, the father of us all' 3d prop: an open wooden treasure chest with a faceted diamond on its red lining Sketchbook 38 spread in pencil: a glass of tea, its bag slumped beside it on a crumpled napkin — 'tea, Ronse(?)' Sketchbook 47 spread at the Musée de Flandre, Cassel: notes on Flemish Mannerism and 'The Flood' by Matthijs Cock, sketches of a jester and the Struganoff Madonna's snake-like sleeve Sketchbook 49 spread: dark graphite vignette of a seated figure with another curled beside it, facing a bending walking figure with bundled back, a lined older face, and scattered head studies New York Times clipping from 1883 recounting Ingres confronting Delacroix at dinner — 'Drawing, Sir, drawing is honesty! Drawing, Sir, drawing is honor!' — spilling his coffee in his fury Handbound felt-covered sketchbook with an iPod Touch bound in as a page, screen reading 'Sync in Progress' — three views of the book-with-battery NATO.0+55 KLONE welcome patch: 242.dna3, 242.fraktal, 242.3d Subtitled still from Rome Open City: a woman speaks to a uniformed man in the street — 'Pina, do you think Americans really exist?' Classic Mac OS dialog box reading 'Error. Success!' with an OK button — the story of my life Sketchbook 43 spread from a hospital room, 1 June 2012: pencil studies of the draped bedside table, IV drip lines, a faucet, and a hand cradling a heart-rate clip — 'Oh Venus, where did I go wrong?' Plain dark charcoal-grey square swatch Freud's model of the mind as an iceberg: the conscious ego above the waterline, superego at the surface, and the vast unconscious id submerged below Leonardo da Vinci drapery study of a standing figure in profile, the robe's deep folds brushed in grey and white on brown prepared linen, numbered XII Sketchbook 44 spread, 'Slightly lost': ballpoint sketch of the Heusden bus stop en route to a driving exam, a reclining graphite nude below, and watercolor figure studies in grey and burnt orange opposite Cover of sketchbook 16A: red cloth with a transferred engraving of a cluttered table of tools and instruments, worn and stained Sketchbook 49 spread: pale blue-pencil studies of draped figures with a shield-like disc, beside a graphite arm and a slender standing nude with raised arm Two dim selfies at Bernini's grave slab in Santa Maria Maggiore — 'Ioannes Laurentius Bernini' carved in the marble behind wide eyes The Aristodikos kouros, ca. 510-500 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 3938. The hands are lost but the stubs of the two struts that braced them to the thighs survive at hip height. Photograph by Gary Todd, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons. Frans Floris, The Fall of the Rebel Angels: armored archangels with swords and shield drive a writhing avalanche of muscular demon bodies down out of the light Sketchbook 43 spread titled '5 still lives': graphite studies of a sleeping spaniel, a looming foreshortened face, a crouched nude, and a girl in a skirt standing with a bag DVD cover of Antonioni's Blow-Up: on hot orange, a photographer kneels over a woman on the ground, camera raised Text titled Realtime processing: the computer's essence as artistic medium is generating events in real time — time is to digital art what space is to analog art A box crammed with 3D-print tests: faces and heads in chocolate brown, blue, gold, copper, and bone, red architectural fragments, and gridded lattice scraps

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