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Grainy black-and-white video still from Rosas' Elena's Aria: two women seated on wooden chairs against a bare wall, one crossing her legs, one clutching her shoulder Digital painting on teal: a gaunt pale-faced figure bowed forward, wrapped head to foot in long dark red-streaked hair, bare hands and feet showing Grainy photograph of the transit of Venus: an arrow points to the planet's small dark silhouette against the Sun's blurred limb Sketchbook pencil studies: a woman's downcast face, a dark heavily-shaded bearded man grimacing, and a faint construction-lines head Book page from Liao Yiwu's The Corpse Walker: an interview in which Li describes the old profession of walking a corpse home in pairs, chanting 'Ya, ho, ya, ho' Dancing drawing: a dense tangle of black ink figures looping across grey-washed paper, thin drips running off the bottom of the swarm Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash An antique red-and-gold binding of Vecellio's Costumes Anciens et Modernes given new blank pages — old spine, bare label panel, fresh paper inside Sketchbook 38 spread in ballpoint: a park path curving under trees toward a small stone bridge, an empty bench in dappled shade Journal spread: two torn notebook scraps with inked faces collaged over pencil writing, the profile at right labeled 'THE ACCUSER' 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 MinoRinth simulation frame: seen from high above, the tiny yellow labyrinth disc and point-cloud tree glow at the bottom of a muted green chasm Masahiro Mori's uncanny valley graph: familiarity against human likeness, dipping past bunraku puppet toward corpse and zombie before healthy person A scanned drift of currencies: a fifty-million-Mark Reichsbanknote, a US two-dollar bill, Egyptian pounds, assorted coins, and a pink hundred Sformo-Analysis 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 Dutch growth chart of pale blue body silhouettes from two-month foetus to 25-year-old adult, heads aligned along red horizontal lines 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 Inside the MinoRinth maze: dark castle-like towers with chimneys loom over the walls under a curdled white-and-sepia sky Silent Hill 2 graffiti in grainy red letters across two frames: 'There was a HOLE here. It's gone now.' Back cover of sketchbook 16A: a Daniel Clowes 'PARANOID' comic page varnished in amber, its edges dissolving into dark red drips Collage 'Cautionary Tale': a watercolor figure with exposed bones walking on green ground, framed by torn handwriting and a small anatomical leg diagram Desktop wallpaper grid of cute forest-creature illustrations in greens and plums — deer, mushroom folk, a peacock — with Mac folders scattered over it Blurred black-and-white mirror self-portrait: standing in a bare room with a camera at the chest, a lit sconce and door behind The fossil skeleton of Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis: her scattered bones — skull fragments, ribs, pelvis, limb pieces — laid out on dark blue cloth 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 Grid of fifty identical grey 3D heads showing facial morph targets: rows of subtle brow, eye, and mouth shapes, one mouth open wide mid-shout Reading Ovid at 03:16 — iPad page of the Metamorphoses with Medea's lines underlined in red: 'It's useless to fight, Medea… This, or something akin to it surely, is what they call love.' Sketchbook 30 spread labeled 'Hecuba blinds Polymnestor': ink and wash studies of gravestones and crosses, numbered like a catalogue of monuments Three stems of yellow loosestrife (wederik) with whorled yellow flowers against a peeling white wall, beside a metal drainpipe Sketchbook 43 spread: a real pressed pansy taped over pencil pansies in a vase; opposite, a portrait of an older man in a tank top and a note on seeing the work of Steven Assael, 26 May 2012 Blurry cellphone photo from Mom: Canada geese grazing on a sunlit lawn at Eagle Creek, a green pond and trees behind Joseph Beuys's Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 in three photos: taxidermy hare on poles against the chalk-drawn panel, plus the museum label An enormous pale pink peony bloom overwhelming its blue vase on a red table, an orchid pot beside it Body scan, 2002: a horizontal abdominal incision closed with a row of metal staples, stained gauze pads resting above it Film still of the Queen of the Night: a crowned soprano with a crescent-moon staff rises from painted clouds inside a swirling tunnel of stars Sketchbook 44 spread labeled 'Murillo': blue and graphite studies of standing nudes and women with 1960s bouffant hair, one gaunt figure gazing down at right — noted 'Battle of the Frigids, Slovenia' Four frames from the Magnetosphere music visualizer: red tangles around white globes, pink threads on magenta, and golden particle bursts in blackness Teiji Furuhashi's Lovers: life-size nude figures projected walking and running around a dark room, a scaffold tower of projectors at its centre Six flash self-portraits in a green dress printed with red-capped mushrooms, dreadlocks loose, photographed from odd angles Sketchbook 42b: second charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso, seen from the front with the chest collapsing toward the cut thighs, a small profile sketched above Blurry snapshot in a pink tank top printed with a roaring purple monster, mid-gesture Back cover of sketchbook 18: a photograph of an open hand pressed under waxed translucent paper, everything tea-stained and creased Sketchbook 43 spread: pencil lilies in a glass jar — 'Nature is organized. It's like all my life I've been worshipping the wrong goddess' — facing faint studies of hands and feet 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' AP photograph of the yeti crab Kiwa hirsuta: a white deep-sea crab, its long arms shaggy with pale silky bristles Entropy8 baroque logotype: the letters E-N-T-R-O-P-Y-8 descending through a thicket of white rococo vines and flourishes on black A work desk: white iBook, black keyboard, Wacom tablet and mouse, a Dell monitor showing a portrait in progress, daisies in an orange vase Last.fm 'now listening' list: Stars of the Lid twice, zlknf, Grails, and Apse's AE twice Labeled map of ancient Rome: the seven hills in orange within the red line of the Servian Wall, the Tiber, Tiber Island, and the Field of Mars at left

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