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Desktop wallpaper grid of cute forest-creature illustrations in greens and plums — deer, mushroom folk, a peacock — with Mac folders scattered over it QR code for the ProjectProject work Polyphemau 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 Sketchbook 40 spread: Florence from Fiesole in the faintest watercolor — a blue hill line, green olive trees, two golden figures standing at lower left Sketchbook 42 spread: inked fantasy landscape — a cypress and tower at left, windswept trees with ribboning branches at right, and two small girls standing beneath them Scanned spread from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, chapters 14 to 16: Tereza embraces a tree like a lost grandfather while the man with the rifle waits Dim webcam photo: a man's face half out of frame beside a window with potted plants on the sill, a pale building across the street and a radiator below Gilded thousand-armed statue: a crowned deity with hands joined in prayer, a great fan of golden arms and open palms radiating behind the dark serene face Sketchbook 22B open on a road case: a Chinese wedding chair clipping ringed by red imps, and on silver foil a mummy-like figure trailing long roots — 'I am big + the pictures that got smaller' BBC photograph of a black crested macaque crouched in jungle foliage, peering intently into an object held up to its face Scanned book page on the twelvefold chain of dependent origination from Udana I: ignorance conditioning all links through old age, death, and suffering The Aztec basalt statue of Coatlicue: the earth goddess with clawed feet, a skull at her waist and twin serpent heads forming her face, on a blue ground Thirty-minute digital portrait study: a scowling face lit blue from one side against dark red, white tank top roughed in Google correcting the search 'keep pens from exploding on airplane' to 'keep pets from exploding on airplane' A dense strip of engraved sheet music in 12/8, marked 'mhm' at the start, black notes crowding the staff Yellowed spread from Rodin's L'Art in French: passages declaring art dead to modern utility, and art as contemplation, the joy of intelligence seeing clearly Velázquez's The Triumph of Bacchus (Los Borrachos): the young wine god crowns a kneeling drinker among grinning peasants, Museo del Prado The same support forest assigned the bronze material instead of oak, so the struts read as cast metal against a marble body. Tiny pixel-art GIF of a dark-haired woman in a black top and red skirt, one arm raised — the classic animated dancing girl of the early web Sketchbook 45 opening: a grisaille gouache self-portrait, eyes glancing sideways under a dark fringe, facing a black brushstroke and the inscription '45, Mars Black, 13 Nov 2012' Vija Celmins drawing of a spider web: concentric silk rings and radial spokes in white on black Kiki Smith's Getting the Bird Out: a black cast head lying cheek-down, a twine cord running from its mouth to a small black bird lying at its end Atari Centipede arcade marquee: the green centipede winds through red-capped mushrooms and yellow starbursts in purple and green Tiny icon of a wooden hourglass, sand gathered in the lower bulb Listening party — On Viale della Trinità dei Monti at dusk, she gathered the palazzo's held warmth—travertine walls yielding their pale grayish browns, the yellowish grays of weathered stone like old parchment. White vodou veve drawing on a dark grey ground — a starred, symmetrical crossroads emblem framed by two arcs Tiny blurry webcam frame of Shari in a white shirt, head bowed over a desk in daylight Sketchbook 38 spread: charcoal sketches of the blackened statues on Charles Bridge, birds swarming around a saint's head French TV weather map ('DEMAIN') covered in burning-car and riot icons instead of weather symbols — the 2005 riots as forecast A Gemini year-ahead horoscope: 'a big change is in the works… everything you've been thinking of changing will be greenlit, light by light, and in time.' A dry twig with curled dead leaves lying on a pale surface, tiny white flower stickers pasted onto the dead leaves Michelangelo-school marble Adam beside a charcoal master copy of the same statue, face left blank in the drawing Mike Libby's mechanical insect: a real cicada with orange-and-black wings spread, its body replaced by tiny watch gears and a red jewel Two frames of Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks: standing in a doorway in a trench coat, then lying down, hand in her hair, a man's shoulder in front Cover of sketchbook 26: a thick black branching form like roots or veins inked over waxed book text crosshatched with shadows Two sagittal MRI scans of the same head and spine in profile, lips, tongue, and vertebrae glowing white against black Page from Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp: painting had become retinal — few ideas, mostly technical problems, all painting since Impressionism antiscientific Blurred photograph in amber light: a bellydancer in a sequined costume performs on a white runway in an ornate gilded hall Close-up of a Path girl's face bottom half: sallow skin, wide dark hollow eyes, flat lips, red hair edges at the ears Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather: two self-portrait busts side by side, one licked-down chocolate, one washed-away white soap, on classical pedestals Sketchbook 49 spread in silverpoint-light graphite: a mustached man's face, a hand gripping a dark plum, a corked bottle, and a nude beside stacked studies of a bearded head and wing Concert at a small venue: singer bent over at the stage edge in black, guitarist and drummer on stage, sparse audience watching Inside cover of sketchbook 20: collaged Muybridge-like figures carrying trays across the bottom, a golden crest reading 'PSYCHE STORY' held up at right, rusty reds above Hugo van der Goes's The Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand naked by the fruit tree while the serpent, a lizard with a woman's head, watches Eve reach for an apple Blurred black-and-white photo of the Penguin Classics Ovid Metamorphoses, its cover Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, her fingers bursting into laurel Sketchbook 49 spread at the Musée Jacquemart-André: notes on Vigée-Lebrun, Van Dyck and Lord Leighton's 'Antigone', facing a dense graphite copy of Aleijs Loir's sprawling satyr with pipes Three test renders of a scanned bust with flowers for La Vita Nova: sparse point cloud, solid shaded mesh, and dense stippled versions side by side The Pleiades star cluster: the seven sisters blazing blue-white inside wisps of reflection nebula on a dense starfield Airmail envelope from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, addressed to Ms. Auriea L. Harvey 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

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