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Sketchbook 38 spread, Oudenaarde: a face rising behind watercolor foliage, gothic church windows, and a pencil driver seen in a car's wing mirror Cover of sketchbook 15: the darkened, cracked contents page of an antique reader collaged under murky brown paint, entries like 'Trust in God' underlined in red Digital painting of celosia flowers in a green vase, olive greens on a brown ground with rough pale yellow brushwork around it Square medium-format photo: a drainpipe kinking down onto a flat tar roof, brick school building and fenced windows behind, morning haze Handwritten score: 'AURIEA, for two pianos' — September 15, 2015, Oostende — playfully, allegretto; 'brush strings gently', 'choose a string, find the note', ending 'fin' three times Double page from Hokusai's Manga: sketched vignettes of kneeling figures — a startled couple, a shamisen player, a monk, and a gossiping pair — with brush captions Sketchbook 45 spread: graphite still life of a clementine with a dried curling leaf on its stem, and a separate leafy twig floating on the facing page Novelty phone-message slip headed 'SADE (Shah-day)': 'While you were listening to Sade's DIAMOND LIFE album', with checkboxes like 'Phoned' and 'Wants to see you' over her faint portrait A scanned drift of currencies: a fifty-million-Mark Reichsbanknote, a US two-dollar bill, Egyptian pounds, assorted coins, and a pink hundred Wax-pale panel with two graphite dead birds drawn beside two black 3D-printed women curled in the same fallen pose Journal spread: two torn notebook scraps with inked faces collaged over pencil writing, the profile at right labeled 'THE ACCUSER' ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru Cover of sketchbook 5 (1996): black spiral book chalked 'Pseudo Quasi Real — Auriea Sketchbook V' with a starburst doodle around a small photo of a torso 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 Academic pencil life drawing on cream paper: a nude woman with pinned-up hair seated with legs crossed, gazing off to the left, highlights in white chalk New watercolor tin open on a plaid lap: two rows of half-pans from reds through blues to ochres, a water brush laid across Edvard Munch's Puberty: a naked adolescent girl sits on the edge of her bed, arms crossed over her lap, a heavy shadow looming beside her ZBrush sculpt of a stylized animal skull mask, yellow-green over white with red striped horns and black flame markings Grisaille digital study of a classical marble bust — woman with headband and braided hair — on a flat pink ground Two Endless Forest deer side by side: a black one with blue skull face and sparkler antlers, and a red one in a green luchador-style mask Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Roma sketchbook: dense ink trees in the Vatican gardens under writing about tourism and dedication — 'genetics be damned in my spirals' A whole pumpkin pie on a metal plate with one slice cut and slightly pulled out, on black granite Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth in a 1990s Calvin Klein ad, seated on a couch in a sheer black dress and heels, the CK logotype over the image Sketchbook 48 spread: art-history lecture notes from the Académie Royale on the Three Graces, Mantegna and Titian, facing a tender graphite study of a seated faun with a Santayana quote on Americans and junk Roma sketchbook: pencil sketch of a roped-off monument, and in purple and brown, a Bernini angel reaching toward a draped reclining figure Dancing drawing: a dense tangle of black ink figures looping across grey-washed paper, thin drips running off the bottom of the swarm Sketchbook 49 spread of cast-hall studies: headless antique torsos, a winged Cupid stringing his bow, a standing putto seen in profile, and a muscular breastplate torso Close on the leafed neck struts: twisted stems with leaf blades reaching out and up between them. Worn black cover of the Caproni Casts catalog — 'Plaster Reproductions of Sculpture for Drawing and Modeling Classes', Caproni Galleries, Boston, price one dollar Sketchbook 38 spread in charcoal: the gothic buttresses and pointed windows of St Vitus close up, and a small sketch of Charles Bridge arches over the river 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 Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet light Back cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photo of an open book — 'Relation du naufrage de la frégate La Méduse' — and an embossed rooster 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 Sketchbook 44: pencil drawing of the ruined castle of Fenouillet on its rocky hilltop, drawn as an outline map of boulders with touches of violet ink Netscape-era screenshot of a web ELIZA chatbot — 'a friend you could never have' — replying 'Why do you say your whole life?' above the submit box Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes: Judith and her maidservant pin the general to the bed with braced arms as the blade cuts through, blood soaking the sheets Indianapolis diptych: pastel wooden houses under a winter sky, and a corner-store cooler with a hand-drawn sign 'ALL CAN POP'S 5 for 1.00 — NO SINGLE!' Sketchbook 38 spread in pencil: a glass of tea, its bag slumped beside it on a crumpled napkin — 'tea, Ronse(?)' Sketchbook 44 spread: pencil profiles of faces and a hand with a ring, facing a faint mapped reconstruction of Alchemilla Hospital from Silent Hill — elevators, kids' room, kitchen — labeled 'SH1 endgame' MinoRinth from above: green-edged concentric maze rings curving below brick towers, their walls stitched with dotted purple seams Sunny's Lion: a blue-green painting of a snarling shishi guardian lion face, round eyes and bared teeth framed by spiraling curls of mane Roma sketchbook spread 'S.P.Q.R.': ink studies of statues and angels with notes — 'It is a frightening thing when one culture supplants another... In Rome the Gods are truly dead.' QuickTime windows of dance-studio clips: a dancer improvising alone on a black floor marked with tape, seen from the corner — Drama Princess motion reference Sketchbook 49 spread: graphite drawing of wilting amaryllis blooms, facing a close study of a nude's hip and a small sanguine figure climbing into shadow The Metope Atelier interface: the glyph spine at the left, the Tools tablet pinned open with all twenty shape tools and the brush controls, the Material tablet at the right, and a relief in progress in the viewport. 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 Long-exposure blur of a family living room seen through a mylar balloon — clock, cabinet and figures smeared into ghosts Cover of sketchbook 3: black leather painted 'AURIEA'S SKETCHBOOK III' in purple around a photo of a hand with a chaos-star drawn on it, one eye peering past

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